WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 14, 2019

Listener comments!
	👻 9:02am 12539: Heigh ho!
	9:02am Rev. Turnip Druid: as they say, yip.
	9:02am TDK60: DJ Joe, hello!
	9:03am The Oscar: Mornin' all! Always happy to hear some Les & Mary.
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: OK, now it's Monday. Boing boing!
	9:03am Linda Lee: what a lovely opener. good morning Joe! Happy Birthday! :-)
	9:05am TDK60: Weren't Paul/Ford the very first to double-track guitar/voice?..early at least huh?
	9:05am Granny Spicy Tuna: Les and Mary, what lushness… It's your birthday? Many sparkling wishes for all the best in this next dance around the sun!
	9:06am Vince Nifigance: Go, go, Joe McGasko.
	9:06am Krys O.: Good morning, Joe! Thanks for the lush sounds.
	9:06am Rev. Turnip Druid: great beginning. Could it be that Skeeter Davis is on the horizon? Could it?!?!?! .... it is the end of the world, after all...
	9:06am Granny Spicy Tuna: And, ooh, oh my, JULIE!
	9:07am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe! Many happy returns of the day!
	9:07am annie: good morning joe! many happy returns for your birthday!
	9:07am Henry in Hopatcong: Happy birthday Joe!
	9:07am steveo: easin' into monday like
	👻 9:08am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Happy Capricorns.
	9:08am Joe McG: Thanks for the birthday wishes! There's no better way to spend my birthday than on the radio with you!
	9:09am Hoboken Jack: Happy birthday, Joe! Hello Ken, Krys, all.
	👻 9:09am Brian in UK: Hey Monica, great start!!
	9:10am Colleen: Oh...Thank you for this!!
	9:10am steveo: there's no better way for us to spend your birthday either -- felicitations!
	9:11am Colleen: Hey! Happy Birthday!
	9:11am The Oscar: Man, I was a fool in my record store days for ignoring the Pop Vocal drawers for my store plays. Also, HBDJMcG!
	9:11am TDK60: Happy birthday Joe, how young are you now?
	9:11am pantz: Happy 30th B-Day, Joe!
	9:13am TDK60: ..although I think that astro stuff is hooey, I'm a Capricorn too.
	9:14am Lixiviated Life: well... I'm back. oh joy
	9:14am Krys O.: Oh, goodness, Tracy's voice makes everything better.
	9:14am Rev. Turnip Druid: Hooey!
	9:15am Krys O.: Happy Birthday, Joe!
	👻 9:15am James in ATL: Happiest birthday wishes to you Joe!
	9:15am Granny Spicy Tuna: Hooray for hooey! What isn't hooey anyway? Let's play some Harvey Sid Fisher!
	9:16am Krys O.: Hey, Hoboken Jack and everyone!
	9:16am TDK60: Krys O, what's shakin' in Bloomfield?
	9:16am Linda Lee: any belief system that doesn't appeal is hooey. if it appeals, it's revelation. so be it. i only ask that it not be required. :-D
	9:17am melinda: Nice set Joe!
	9:18am Krys O.: @TDK60: Bloomfield is still reeling from a pedestrian death in my neighborhood last Friday. Very tragic. Happened in broad daylight.
	9:18am melinda: and happy birthday!
	9:18am Linda Lee: car accident, Krys?
	9:18am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Well put, Linda Lee.
	9:19am ami ad: Top of the morning D.J. Joe,hello fellow listeners.Hope all is well out there in the Jersey state.Keep U.S freeform.Shalom.
	9:20am Linda Lee: here's a nice spot for Mary Lou Lord! :-)
	👻 9:20am karlward: This (and especially the New Order original) is a perfect pop song.
	9:22am TDK60: Sorry to hear Krys O.
	9:23am Maggie B.: happy birthday, Joe!
	9:24am Joe McG: Thanks everybody. Me and Dave Grohl, soul brothers.
	9:25am Fernando P.: Frente’s BLT version was a huge (MTV) hit in Brazil at the time. Was it in the US also?
	9:26am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Holy cow, hadn't thought of Mary Lou Lord in awhile, and that just catapulted me into a mid-90's memory lane, my brief stint in Cambridge. Everybody be safe out there in the wild, wicked world. Hope your neighborhood finds comfort and healing, Krys.
	9:27am Joe McG: @Fernando: No, they got some college radio play, but no hits as far as I know.
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: and yet you haven't lost your Grohlish figure.
	9:27am steveo: beautiful set you got here, mister
	9:27am ami ad: Happy Birthday Dave Grohl and his ultimate soul brother.Hip hip.
	9:28am Joe McG: Thanks, ami! Anybody mind if I play another Frente! song? I'm in the mood.
	9:30am cluebucket: g'ahead!
	9:30am Joe McG: Who says I don't take requests?
	👻 9:30am karlward: I'm super into that distorted bass on "Some Jingle Jangle Morning."
	9:31am Linda Lee: love the Mary Lou! thank you Joe!
	👻 9:32am Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, wishing you the biggest Happy Birthday, Joe! youtu.be...
	9:33am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Joe, it's your day! Listening to this Mary Lou Lord i can close my eyes and see younger me wearing a thrift store dress, big clunky shoes and too much eyebrow pencil. Ahhh…
	9:33am Mike Wolf: ah, the Frente cover double-play
	9:34am Mike Wolf: More people should’ve been covering more of his songs so that Chris Knox would be a wealthy person today
	9:34am Linda Lee: was just reading about the utter sh*t show involving Mary Lou Lord & Courtney Love. who needs that grief in their lives?
	9:36am melinda: What is the shit show LL?
	9:36am Linda Lee: you've got the best bed music on air, Joe.
	9:36am Jeff Moore: I love Frente! I kind of forgot about them, then remembered and played this very song a few weeks ago. Glad to hear them getting more attention.
	9:37am Linda Lee: melinda dear, just goggle both their names.
	9:38am Your Ace From Exchange Place: Happy birthday, Joe!
	9:38am leylou: I agree. what beautiful songs I found myself listening to! (to listen to on a quiet super windy afternoon, in the midst of national turmoil)
	9:38am KP in DC: Hello Joe, from iced in Dixie
	9:38am MplsCoco: Happy Birthday Joe!!! ❤️❤️ Your voice sounds sexy!
	9:38am Rev. Turnip Druid: not just any crud, mind you. THE crud.
	9:39am andyplants: Happy birthday Joe
	9:39am Granny S Tuna. Esq: I recall the old CL vs MLL feud. It was hard to stay out of riot grrrl feuds in those days. I had to squirm out of a few myself, staying just obscure enough to not matter to some of the bloodthirsty beasts of that era. Just don't talk to me about Ben Is Dead zine, heh heh…
	9:39am KP in DC: We have the crud in Washington too
	9:40am Jeff Moore: Happy birthday, Joe! And thanks, asshole. I'm getting a scratchy throat and the sneezes.
	9:41am elwyn: Thanks for the MLL and Frente. Which MLL album was that from? It sounded different from the one I have. Frente... they have a special place in the hearts of all Australians of my generation.
	9:41am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning everyone
	9:41am BetsyO: Happy Zippity Yip Birthday Joe!!! ...................... Sto lat, sto lat, Niech żyje, żyje nam. Sto lat, sto lat, Niech żyje, żyje nam, Jeszcze raz, jeszcze raz, Niech żyje, żyje nam, Niech żyje nam .........................
	9:42am Linda Lee: i'm with you re Spotify, Joe. honestly, Granny, the older i get the stupider it all looks. one perk of aging. :-D
	9:42am Linda Lee: good morning, Phillippe!
	9:43am Phillippe Bastille: Hey Linda, how are you?
	9:43am steveo: more captain and tennille!
	9:43am Linda Lee: the '50s are fabulous, Joe. we finally begin realizing what really matters. don't worry.
	9:44am Colleen: Awwww sorry Joe!
	9:44am steveo: (that dragons album you hipped us to last week is interesting!)
	9:44am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Linda Lee, so glad to care so much less. My near misses with underground fame and the egomaniacal shenanigans of the more…ambitious… ones cured me of my worldy ways and sent me back home to my cats and my bathtub.
	9:44am Robert Tables: Damn Joe, 50?!?! You had me fooled. Happy birthday!
	9:44am jess: happy birthday everybody!
	9:44am Phillippe Bastille: 60s suck though
	9:44am Linda Lee: @Phillippe Bastille ~ i'm still here, love. thank you. i listened to adult pop at 5 too, Joe. that was 1965. i was very lucky.
	9:44am melinda: This will be fun, a journey into the mind of 5-year-old Joe!
	9:44am David Colangelo: You sick old man...pathetic...
	👻 9:45am Brian in UK: Hearing Frente! My mind took a sidetrack to Michael Franti's Ofcourse You Can'. Well it is freeform. Joe, does Nelly the Elephant figure on your kindergarten hits?
	9:45am prudy: i'm with you LL. The significant things in life really begin to shine.
	9:45am The Oscar: Technicolor Paradise is so great! When my girlfriend and I took a vacation to Maine last summer I insisted on playing it constantly in the car, despite the fact that Maine is objectively less tropical than our usual climes.
	9:45am jess: I'll be 50 this year. not looking forward to it...
	9:46am Joe McG: Nice, BetsyO! Thanks! Yes, I'm 50 now. You can call me Gramps McGasko from now on.
	9:46am Colleen: Fantastic! Hey there Linda Lee!!
	9:46am prudy: looking forward to the 5 part of the show. that would make it around 1974, right Joe?
	9:47am The Oscar: @Joe That's honestly a great DJ name.
	9:47am Linda Lee: i feel sorry for the 60 year old adolescents. honestly, how much time have they got to waste?
	9:47am Itzall Ablurr: Hi Joe, happy birthday. So nice and unexpected to hear Robert Drasnin on your show. Love it!
	9:47am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Speaking of way back when, i'm one of the characters in a doc about the wack San Francisco scene between the AIDS crisis and the Tech Boom: "SF89." Should be coming out in a year or two, lots of my crappy camcorder footage will be featured. Yeah!
	9:47am Joe McG: @prudy: You got it!
	9:48am JtotheK: @The Oscar - agreed, Technicolor Paradise is terrific. And props to (Drummer Streamer) Little Danny for his work on it!
	👻 9:48am b!!!: Happy Birthday Joe!!
	9:48am The Oscar: This Chayns is maybe my favorite on the set. Love that little guitar lick.
	9:48am Ike: 50?!? You don't look a day over 40! And your voice doesn't currently sound a day over 93!
	9:48am Rev. Turnip Druid: did that particular birthday a bit earlier last year. in grand style. of course. ... welcome to the sacred gang.
	9:48am Linda Lee: you could be the New Old Codger, Joe! :-) that's great news, Granny! look forward to seeing you!
	👻 9:48am karlward: Oh man. There's going to be so much Alice Cooper.
	👻 9:49am karlward: I'm actually not sure how I feel about that.
	9:49am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Wack, wacky— both apply, i suppose. Joe, jess and all the 1969 babies— me, too! I was born between Helter Skelter and Woodstock.
	9:49am JtotheK: ((And hello Joe, happy birthday! Hi everyone.))
	9:49am The Oscar: @JtotheK I didn't know that! That same trip we also listened to Danny's premium from last year, and we even noted that how much in the same vein it was!
	9:50am Linda Lee: hiya Colleen!
	9:50am ami ad: Many more Joe,many more.Appreciate the good sounds and chill vibes.Thanks and Praise.
	9:51am KP in DC: Mary Lou Lord has been doing well lately. She has been working with Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond, who wrote her signature song, “Lights are Changing.”
	9:52am JtotheK: @The Oscar, there was also a magazine/periodical about exotica as a tie in with that comp. It's worth a read.
	9:52am Linda Lee: good to hear that, KP!
	9:53am David Colangelo: Best song 1973, Feeling Stronger Every Day....Chicago
	9:55am heyitschris: Just got here. Happy Birthday Joe! Hope this is a great year for you.
	9:55am Linda Lee: not possible, David! we still had Ziggy Stardust.
	9:55am The Oscar: @JtotheK I got that, and totally agree! Exotica is one of the genres I could listen to completely uncritically for hours and not get sick of it.
	9:57am Linda Lee: @The Oscar ~ totally agree. i'd also like to know why we don't have an exotica/lounge & easily listening show on fmu.
	👻 9:58am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Alright! Made it for the Birthday Show! Happy Birthday Joe!!
	9:59am Joe McG: @Ike: Ha ha! @karl: I didn't hear any Alice until the mid-70s, so Alice free. @Trista: Thanks!!
	9:59am The Oscar: @LL Have you checked out The Explorer's Room on GTDR? Covers a lot of ground musically, but exotica is definitely the baseline.
	9:59am Ike: @LL, I think there was one circa 1994, possibly before anybody else did it. Also Irwin and a guy named Tom Crowe used to play a ton of that stuff in the 90s and helped start that trend.
	9:59am Linda Lee: i'd say it's time to revisit the concept. for the youngsters.
	10:00am BetsyO: @Joe McG,... the Polish Sto Lat Birthday song is wishing you to see 100, so you’re half way there,... which means we get to hear your show for decades to come. https://youtu.be/mGdytuGZhj4
	10:01am Joe McG: @BetsyO: So sweet! Stashu sang it to me a couple of years ago!
	10:01am Linda Lee: i really do need to check out GTDR in depth. i have sinned in avoidance.
	10:02am highlowe: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Looking forward to hearing what those 5 year old ears took in! I for one am happy that you are here!
	10:02am djsheilab: Happy birthday Joe! I've been listening since the start and have been enjoying your selections immensely. Glad you're treating yourself to your five-year-old favorites!
	10:03am BetsyO: @JoeMcG,... though this version by Lil’ Wally is way more up tempo and fitting! https://youtu.be/Xfof-CvCShU
	10:04am Joe McG: Thanks so much, highlowe! My 5 year old taste is pretty oddball, I must say. But you'll hear! @Sheila: Thank you so much! I can't wait to play them. :)
	10:04am Linda Lee: when you were 5, Joe, I was 13 ~ but i know i'll dig that set!
	10:05am Granny Spicy Tuna: The GTDR stream is a treasure, and Sheena's Jungle Room has plenty of Exotica surges…
	10:06am Granny Spicy Tuna: Yes, i majorly blame/credit Irwin for that Lounge revival of the 90's, and my freelance go-go dancing days…
	10:08am Linda Lee: i'm 100% certain i could spend every waking moment with fmu/fm or the stream & be a better person for it ~ but i must exert judgement lest i petrify.
	10:08am joe: 'Ello Folks Happy Birthday Joe
	10:09am The Oscar: Spotting Irwin's name in the liner notes of various oddball comps in the '90s (as well as Songs in the Key of Z) is what brought me to WFMU in the first place :)
	10:09am TheLoneliestMonk: JoeMac is the birthday boy today?? Many happy returns, pal!
	10:09am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, i have been experimenting with almost nonstop WFMU attendance, and it has literally been a life saver for me. YAY, WFMU!!!
	10:10am Linda Lee: wfmu works its magic once again! :-) so glad.
	10:10am TheLoneliestMonk: ...and was that some dubstep I heard trailing off just now...on surface noise??
	10:10am Joe McG: Yes, Irwin had a lot to do with the price of all those lounge and exotica records going up! Highly recommend The Explorer's Room, btw, if you like that sound like I do.
	10:11am thatpatsmith: Belated Happy Birthday, Joe!
	10:12am pantz: I learned of WFMU through a Metafilter post about Tom Scharpling many years ago. After a few beers with a buddy from New Jersey, I was convinced to listen to more programs. Now I donate what scraps I can afford, because it's so worth it.
	10:12am The Oscar: The nice thing about my day job is it gives me an excuse to listen to 8 to 9 hours of WFMU a day! I'm not sure I could have made the transition from the record store to the office without it.
	10:14am Linda Lee: i can actually remember lounge/exotica the first time around ~ loved it even as a wee tot.
	10:15am Joe McG: This is not The Smiths, I swear.
	10:16am Linda Lee: i was just about to say: another perk of aging is being able to hear musical influences very easily.
	10:17am Joe McG: @Linda Lee: A bit of an occupational hazard, I'm afraid.
	10:17am joe: I learned about WFMU as I started to hang around the shadier part of the dial roughly about the same time that media was picking up on the attempt to knock down FMU's power in the 90's
	10:18am joe: Now now let's not Smiths shame here. :)
	10:18am The Oscar: One of my dreams is to install a switch in my home that automatically plays Martin Denny, like Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
	10:18am TheLoneliestMonk: Actually, this dude sounds a bit like Stephen Merritt, to my ears
	10:18am Linda Lee: you don't think it makes curating easier, Joe?
	10:18am JakeGould: First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!!!!
	10:19am Joe McG: @joe: Never! I love them unashamedly.
	10:19am mb: happy birthday Joe McGasko!! I hope you get laid tonight or at the very least stare at some Exotica record covers and enjoy yourself with a drink or two. Cheers!
	10:19am Joe McG: Thanks, Jake, thatpat, Monk and everybody!
	10:20am Joe McG: @mb: From your mouth to God's ear.
	10:20am Brendan: Leave it to Morrissey. An otherwise happy, I’m in love song. And you’d think somebody died. I hope he doesn’t have any Birthday songs in his repertoire.
	10:21am JakeGould: @LindaLee: As someone who first discovered WFMU in 1992 when I moved to my own place in Park Slope when I was younger, I can tell you there definitely was exotica on the main station then. But I wasn’t into it. Then I stopped listening to WFMU about 1995 when I moved away and “streaming” the RealAudio stream meant tying up my phone line with a 56k modem connection and started listening again around 2014 or so. Anyway… Age!
	10:21am TheLoneliestMonk: As the 'mats would say, it all happens on the left side of the dial "And if I don't see ya, in a long, long while I'll try to find you Left of the dial"
	10:25am Susan C.: Happy Birthday, Joe!!! Rejoice in the quantity and quality of life! XO
	10:26am Granny Spicy Tuna: Emotional entanglements? Nevah hoid of 'em…
	10:27am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac are you getting over a head cold? You sound different on BT speaker, dude
	10:28am Linda Lee: @JakeGould ~ we have a sort-of-similar fmu history. i found fmu when we moved to williamsburg in 85. (no reception before then in manhattan.) i went to north carolina in 93 ~ finally found the stream at about the same time you did, dial-up. it worked, however. i made it back to those juicy radio waves in 2006!
	10:29am SheWolf: Happy B day my fellow Capricorn.
	10:30am duke: I stumbled on WFMU around 2001. I found a website that had a collection of R&B and Rockabilly. Someone on the site said if you like this, you like Fool's Paradise on WFMU.org. I checked it out and I've been stuck since. Rex was my WFMU gateway drug.
	👻 10:31am queems: i bought technicolor paradise last year!!
	10:31am Linda Lee: 'old' is in the mind, Joe!
	👻 10:32am queems: also good morning! i'm late
	10:32am Lixiviated Life: Joey Mc, Confessing that I love your radio program. Ok, I said it.
	10:33am Joe McG: @queems: We get our copies late sometimes, but I'm very happy we have it now.
	10:33am TheLoneliestMonk: @duke for me it was when the had Joe Frank leading into to Dave Emory and then Dave the spazz
	10:33am melinda: Bummed to have missed the exotica. I'm a big fan of Explorers' Room, Flash also does great themed shows featuring exotica-adjacent musics.
	10:33am Mike Sin: Well, now -- Happy birthday, Joe McG!
	10:33am lukavino: the first time i ever heard "My Back Pages", it was a live cut and i think it involved Tom Petty in some capacity.
	10:34am lukavino: anyway, this song is beautiful. happy birthday, Joe.
	10:34am KP in DC: I was much older then
	10:34am Marc Francis: Bonne fête Joe!!!!
	10:35am lukavino: "here's a picture of me when i was older." - Mitch Hedberg
	10:35am sinner: 60 ain't the new nothing.
	10:36am joe: @lukavion maybe the Dylan 30th Anniversary www.youtube.com...
	10:36am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy B'day, Joe!
	10:36am Linda Lee: @LL ~ those heartfelt admissions are important! this is how i know i'm loved especially by a certain fmu personality.
	10:36am Joe McG: Thanks, all!
	10:37am lukavino: oh, far out, joe. i think that was it.
	👻 10:38am queems: oh, happy birthday, @joe mcg!!
	10:38am Linda Lee: next up: the flat foot floogie with the floy floy! (really the same tune.)
	10:38am highlowe: i needed an excuse to eat cake today! Thanks Joe!
	10:38am Roger: Blackberry Boogie! I proposed to my wife to this song!
	10:40am melinda: @Linda haha
	10:40am The Oscar: LOOORRRRRRD.
	10:40am robot rattle: Love that transition!
	10:40am John: LOVE this Devo song
	10:40am steveo: oh great, another song from the Heavy Metal soundtrack ;)
	10:41am judy from croton: Nice, joe! Happy Birthday
	10:41am The Oscar: This would probably be on a playlist of songs I loved when I was 10. (The rest would probably be Weird Al.)
	10:41am Michael Shelley: !
	10:42am judy from croton: At least you don’t owe your soul to the company store
	10:43am Linda Lee: '16 tons' was a childhood fave!
	10:43am Granny Spicy Tuna: queeeems, let's DANCE!!!
	10:45am pantz: I'm not too old to get down, but I just can't get back up.
	10:46am pantz: There's a dad joke for your bday, Joe!
	10:46am ?: https://mentalfloss.com/article/569991/50-things-turning-50-2019
	10:46am frozen_peas: Happy bday Joe! you're never too old (to keep playin the hits)
	10:46am Linda Lee: hear you there, pantz! :-D
	10:46am John: Ahh Aerosmith now have not heard this song in a while
	10:47am TheLoneliestMonk: @@JM next up, 'up for the down stroke' by PFunk?
	10:47am judy from croton: Dang. I was wondering whether you were 30 or 40.
	10:47am JakeGould: Now finally some really rock and roll music! Makes me want to drink wine out of a Pringles can and ride a scooter around a Wal*Mart parking lot. www.ajc.com...
	10:49am TheLoneliestMonk: JoeMac is like jack Benny, doesn't age and is perpetually 39!
	10:49am Joe McG: @John: I can't believe someone at their record company thought this would be a hit.
	10:49am Joe McG: Thanks for the old man joke, pantz!
	10:49am frozen_peas: @JakeGould Now I do too!
	10:50am joe: @JoeMcG all that can be said to that thought of being a hit is Oh Cocaine you silly thing you.
	10:50am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac re:Aerosmith Was gonna say, this is 45 material?
	10:52am Linda Lee: i'm a little disturbed to find some of the 'things' turning 50 this year (from mental floss) are people.
	10:52am TheLoneliestMonk: @joe @JoeMac BwaHa! Those were the days when the record execs did just as much blow as the artists they signed...sometimes right alongside them!
	👻 10:53am tim from champaign: Happy birthday, Joe! Mine was Saturday. Hello everyody.
	10:53am John: @joe mcg are you talking about devo
	👻 10:53am tim from champaign: Good one, Linda!
	10:53am JakeGould: Was talking this weekend to someone who—like me—have only realized in the last few years that “Synchronicity” is a “dad rock” new wave classic.
	👻 10:53am Hughie Considine: Hey @Joe! Apparently Chet Atkins said of Travis Wammack: "This scares me. I pass!"
	10:54am Linda Lee: happy birthday, tim!
	10:54am Joe McG: Happy birthday, Tim! @Hughie: Great story!
	10:54am steveo: [Wammack] began his professional music career when he wrote and recorded his first record at the age of eleven. A child prodigy, Wammack's first record was issued when he was twelve years old, and at 17 he hit the American charts with "Scratchy", an instrumental which peaked at #80 in 1964.
	10:54am TheLoneliestMonk: If any of youse ever read 'hit men', it was worth it for the Neil bogart & Casablanca stories alone!
	10:55am Linda Lee: wow, love this Stones cover. sounds nice & crappy! (a good thing.)
	10:57am Linda Lee: the cleaner music tech gets, the more i like the scuffs & bumps.
	10:57am TheLoneliestMonk: For my money, best cover of JJ Flash is by Johnny winter, a wonderfully raucous, rowdy thing
	10:59am steveo: would have been a good spot for the "groovin'" bed...
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: Ananda Shankar did a fantabulous cover of Jumpin Jack Flash!
	👻 10:59am tim from champaign: I agree with your above 2 comments 100%, Linda.
	11:00am steveo: this is wonderful
	11:00am Linda Lee: what's that about Gay Matthew?
	11:01am Linda Lee: thanks, Tim. i'm not totally twisted then. i'm glad. :-D
	11:01am steveo: i'm going to call hot 100 and ask them to play some records backwards now :)
	11:03am Linda Lee: btw, if you've ever tried having fun in a blackberry patch, you know it's not easy.
	11:03am renbo: Wait do you have a cold Joe or did you get a voice change operation?
	11:04am The Oscar: Thanks to the Satanic Panic of the '80s, I'm pretty sure I know "Stairway to Heaven" better backwards than forwards.
	11:04am renbo: hi everybody! How do I put a picture next to my name?
	11:05am Jim Austin: re exotica: Have you heard "The Versatile Henry Mancini?" It's very spare, with guitar, bass, organ, accordion, and some chorus, but clearly exotica.
	👻 11:05am Hughie Considine: This sounds promising!
	11:06am Booz: I been looking forward to this segment.
	11:07am Vince Nifigance: @renbo Sign up for an account, then you can upload an avatar.
	👻 11:07am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Oh Im very excited for this.
	11:07am Colleen: Im so excited about this!
	11:08am cluebucket: Capricorns age in reverse, they say... no kids' records at 5 makes sense
	👻 11:08am queems: what a cute idea!!!
	11:08am ranjit: I just noticed that your bed music has the same rhythm as the motif that opens Kermit the Frog's Rainbow Connection.
	👻 11:09am Hughie Considine: key change!
	11:09am Joe McG: @ranjit: How nice!
	11:10am The Oscar: The first non-kids song I can remember loving was "Boris the Spider" by the Who (though I didn't care for the fact that Boris dies at the end).
	11:10am melinda: I can see why you liked this at 5.
	👻 11:10am Hughie Considine: I'm guessing this is when young Joe McG perfected his finger snapping.
	11:10am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe!
	11:11am Joe McG: 5 year old me played imaginary drums to this.
	11:11am duke: I want to go surfing.
	👻 11:11am tim from champaign: Joe, you had excellent taste as a 5 year old!
	11:11am melinda: I think I was listening to Free to Be You and me when I was 5.
	11:11am Bill W: Happy birthday, Joe. And 50? Who does your makeup?
	11:11am Andy the painter: a rock and roll wizard story time! happy birthday, joe!!
	11:11am Linda Lee: i liked kids' records more at 25 than i did at 5! at 5 i liked the Yardbirds!
	11:12am Joe McG: @Bill W: I have Dolly's makeup artist.
	11:12am Vince Nifigance: When I was 10, the Fat Boys introduced me to this song.
	11:12am Booz: HBD JMcG
	11:13am Chi Bill: LOL, air drummed this as well at 5 (odd, I'm 60). Happy B -day Joe!
	11:13am renbo: @Vince Nifigance ok man thanks I shoulda realised I guess I use my listener number
	11:14am Linda Lee: oh my GOSH i remember this one very well! 1910 Fruitgum Company!
	11:14am Listener Alexandra: Hippo birdies to you, Joe!
	11:14am Vlack3Bos: I thought you said no kids music!
	11:15am Vince Nifigance: This could double as an alzheimers test in advancing years.
	11:15am Joe McG: Ha ha, I lied!
	11:15am Linda Lee: oh Joe. what young kid didn't love 'downtown'?
	11:16am ranjit: It's weird to hear Downtown without it being all glitched out by People Like Us!
	11:16am Linda Lee: 'simon says' was Top 40!
	11:16am melinda: This was on one of my K-Tel collections, and at the time I thought it and other bubblegum & novelty songs were kids' music.
	11:16am TheLoneliestMonk: 'downtown'! Glenn Gould's favorite pop tune!
	👻 11:17am Ken From Hyde Park: I can imagine Little Joe breaking in his new records by rubbing dirt on them to enhance the surface noise.
	11:17am melinda: Downtown is one of the best songs ever!
	11:17am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Oh my goodness, Joe - "Downtown Train" is also my first memory of music as a child. Happy Happy Birthday, my friend. What a blessing to be alive and to hear and be moved by music and your wonderful show.
	11:17am Roberto: "Downtown" was still commonplace on NYC radio in the early '70s. So much so, in fact, that when I was a kid I assumed it was a '70s production.
	11:18am Linda Lee: i'm definitely 5 years old again hearing Pet Clark! that's when i decided i'd always live 'downtown'.
	11:18am Joe McG: I remember feeling so excited about the possibilities this song raised in wee mind.
	11:18am John in Bklyn: Wow, Joe, you're taking me through my childhood!
	11:18am Linda Lee: me too honey! :-D
	11:19am duke: This was my first record.
	11:19am ConcernedMom: you got me softly twerking
	11:19am TheLoneliestMonk: Early kinks...where's Mike Shelley & Dennis Diken?
	11:20am judy from croton: Joe, your birthday is so much fun! I suggest having a birthday every year
	11:20am Granny Spicy Tuna: Fave at five: "Bennie and the Jets!"
	11:20am Dominick: Haaaaaaaaappppy Birthday! s3.amazonaws.com...
	11:20am melinda: @LoneliestMonk I associate it with him because it was featured in that movie, 32 Short Films or whatever.
	11:21am John in Bklyn: I borrowed a 45 of The Tokens version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight from a friend when I was in 1st grade. I kept it for weeks and he got very upset. I couldn't stop playing it!
	👻 11:21am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Really lovin' this 5 y.o. buddy.
	11:21am Re6ecca: I always enjoy your show Joe! This is definitely my favorite mix yet! I wish every day was your Birthday so you could indulge!!! Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!
	11:21am Joe McG: A lot of oldies, I know, but these are the songs I loved and played over and over.
	11:21am Jim Austin: I remember novelty songs from the late 50's. "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'da Baked a Cake."
	11:22am steveo: joe this is really fantastic. are some of these the same physical 45s you've owned since then? i find the music of my childhood very powerful.
	11:22am Linda Lee: Beatles!!!! you young kids have no idea what 'beatlemania' was really like. it was delicious madness. the first single i owned (age 5) was 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'.
	11:22am John in Bklyn: This is my first SN of 2019... so belated Happy New Year, Joe and fellow Noisers!
	👻 11:22am tim from champaign: AN early music memory for me is figuring out how to turn on and turn the radio dial on my parents' console stereo and coming across Aerosmith's Walk This Way. I remember being struck that they were singing a nursery rhyme and then discovering that the louder I turned it up and the closer I got to the speakers the better it sounded. An early life lesson. I haven't learned much since.
	11:22am TheLoneliestMonk: @melinda not inaccurate. He even did a radio essay about petula Clark...preferred her to the beatles
	11:24am Linda Lee: i'm with you, tim. i could turn on the transistor radio before i could read!
	11:24am judy from croton: My father says I loved Dolly Dawn by Harry Belafonte as a one year old. Only song that made me stand up in my crib and bounce. They’d try to trick me by switching the song in the middle. I’d just lay back down.
	11:25am Joe McG: I never could understand the words to this song. Cool head? Bread? What's he talking about?
	👻 11:25am queems: there was a video of a car sliding down a road during a mudslide and this song was in the background and now that is all i can think about when i hear it
	11:25am John in Bklyn: Happy B-Day, Joe! (Late to the party!) I didn't even bring anything.
	11:25am renbo: Yeah HBD man We're the same age and you're hitting these tunes esp beachboys is right on the money used to sit there with the dinky plastic spinner spinning these funny show -- timetravellin!!
	11:25am The Oscar: When I was home for Christmas my dad was talking about the subgenre of "Me-And-My-Friends-Are-So-Great Beach Boys songs."
	👻 11:25am officina: Happy Birthday to one of the best DJs on the best station !
	👻 11:26am karlward: I so love this song. And the Emerson Kitamura cover.
	11:26am Franco Twinkie: Happy birthday Joe! fifty eight? I liked all these songs when I was ten. Then as now I was glued to the radio. You too, I bet.
	11:26am Joe McG: Thank you so much, oficina!
	11:26am prudy: Rock yer baby!
	11:27am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, closest i ever got to witnessing Beatlemania was attending a New Kids on the Block concert at the Cow Palace in SF at the height of their fame. I know it is the palest, shabbiest comparison, but what i witnessed in the crowd (as an entirely ironic 20-something) really freaked me out and deeply disturbed me. Huzzah for Puritanical sexual repression and its weird outlets. Yikes!
	👻 11:27am queems: loveeee the emerson kitamura cover
	11:27am Linda Lee: we 60s - 70s kids were uniquely confused by the word 'bread'.
	11:27am Brendan: I enjoyed the earlier comments about people finding WFMU. I came to WFMU intentionally. Or at least I knew there was something better out there and went searching for it. At 54, I caught the tail end of the early FM years as a kid only to see the individuality of it die. In the early 2000s, my local independent record shops were pretty much gone. Idol and those *&$#ing talent shows were the thing. Pandora and other recommendation streaming services were hitting their stride. It just felt like a dark time… I started listening to college streams and looked for new ones every day (no, this one’s not right , let me try another). I stumbled onto Irwin’s program one day in 2012 and serendipitously, he was playing an old recording of WFMU from the 70’s. It reminded me of an old station WGTB (Georgetown University) way back in the 70’s where you heard anything and everything before the Jesuit owners probably got tired of hearing djs doing bong hits on air. After Irwin, I discovered Ken, wow. Then all of the other wonderful DJs. Every time I tune in, it’s like walking into a record shop where someone’s putting a great record on the turntable and people are browsing and talking about the artists and sharing. Thanks Joe and Happy Birthday!
	11:28am melinda: I like all these songs but it's especially fun imagining a 5-year-old grooving on them.
	👻 11:28am tim from champaign: The electric piano, droney keyboard and rhythm box are so cool on this. I never noticed before.
	11:28am freste: Happy bday! and holy moly, amazing that can come up with all these. I'm of the same vintage, know every note of these tunes* when I hear them but would never be able to bring them up. (*OK, Simon Says i don't know.))
	11:29am prudy: troglodytes!
	11:30am Linda Lee: Jimmy Castor Bunch! right up there with Dennis Coffey!
	👻 11:30am Brian in UK: Joe, so when did you start collecting records in anger?
	11:30am Roberto: FWIW, about 15 years ago my daughter went to a five-year-old's birthday party where the parting gift was a CD mix of the birthday kid's favorite pop tunes. I don't think my daughter ever listened to it but I sure did...over and over!
	👻 11:30am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Omg. Cave Man! We may be 15 years apart but we totally would have kicked it on the playground.
	11:30am Joe McG: Of course a 5 year old is going to like anything with butt in it.
	11:30am TheLoneliestMonk: BwaHa! Jimmy Castor! Had a friend who was a college radio DJ who LOVED the Jimmy Castor bunch...Bertha's butt boogie!
	👻 11:30am tim from champaign: My 4 year old nephews really like a techno song called "Bootie in Your Face". I think I need to lay the Troglodyte on them.
	👻 11:31am Hughie Considine: Ha, the "gotta find a woman" bit was repurposed in "Election '72," one of those mashups of song soundbites as punch lines in jokes.
	11:31am Colleen: These all just make sence
	11:31am Linda Lee: yeah fellas. ya can't grab a woman by the hair no more. it might come off.
	11:31am The Oscar: I hate that I missed the days when this could be a major radio hit.
	11:32am ConcernedMom: where can i find me a Bertha Butt
	11:32am TheLoneliestMonk: Oh JoeMac, you musta been one funky lil' offbeat dude at 5 yrs old!
	11:33am Linda Lee: oye como va baby! thank you, Nadia, my babysitter, for bringing me to Santana!
	👻 11:33am Hughie Considine: @Oscar, A time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence/ A time of confidences
	11:33am prudy: can't get through the 70s without Santana.
	11:33am steveo: not surprisingly, you were a much cooler 5 year old than me
	11:33am John in Bklyn: @Hughie Considine I remember those! Dicky Goodman, I think?
	11:33am Joe McG: My mom also loved Santana. She had them on bootleg 8-track!
	👻 11:34am Hughie Considine: I can almost hear a segue into "Earache My Eye" here ...
	11:34am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac did you have one of those crappy little personal phonographs with a tinny built in speaker like I did?
	11:34am Bill W: Irwin and Ken were also my gateways to FMU, circa '83
	11:34am Joe McG: @Monk: I was a weird kid who liked weird music even then, I guess.
	11:34am Linda Lee: abraxas: best cover art ever done. mindblowing!
	11:34am Franco Twinkie: Oye Como Va - Total junior high dance party! Stoners and cholos agree, Santana is the shit.
	11:35am Linda Lee: everyone loved this stuff, Joe!
	11:35am Elias: All those from the Cleveland area will instantly have THIS pop into their head when hearing Troglodyte. Forever seared into my little kid up late at night brain.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0
	11:35am John in Bklyn: Bootleg 8-Tracks! haha I had a Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratching Fever" mistyped on the label.
	11:36am Linda Lee: I had one, Monk!
	👻 11:36am queems: YESSSSSSSSSS
	11:36am Roberto: Oh HELLS YAS
	11:36am The Oscar: YESSSSSSSS.
	👻 11:36am Hughie Considine: yes! (the Fifth solo is the best one!!!)
	11:37am Franco Twinkie: I thought Oye Como Va was on the first album. Am I wrong?
	11:37am Chi Bill: Still LOVE Hocus Pocus!!! Yo do lay.....
	11:37am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL like a clamshell valise design, hardshell, highly durable?
	11:37am Linda Lee: oh god ~ in '70 this focus song made me laugh.
	👻 11:37am Hughie Considine: Best yodeling in rock?
	11:38am John in Bklyn: Why aren't there more yodel rock songs?
	👻 11:38am tim from champaign: Joe, did your teacher know what troglodyte meant?
	11:38am Linda Lee: you bet! believe it was red.
	11:38am Lisa in Tpa: Happy birthday, bub! XO
	11:38am Andy the painter: joe, i can’t believe yer turning fifty. i woulda guessed forty. damn.
	11:38am Joe McG: I still love it, too! In fact, I love most of these records still.
	11:39am mjgoins: This is so great.
	11:39am The Oscar: Love that wall of comments at 11:36
	11:39am TheLoneliestMonk: Yeah, they used this in ''baby driver'. Actually shot the shootout scene TO the song...still not sure if it worked
	11:39am Linda Lee: kills me when he gets into the Popeye vocal.
	11:39am Joe McG: @Lisa: Thank you, dear! :)
	👻 11:39am queems: one right into the other
	11:40am Franco Twinkie: I remember when Focus played at the Santa Monica Civic in 1973, thinking should I go? Little Feat opened the show.
	11:40am prudy: you're pushin all the buttons, joe!
	11:40am Joe McG: As a kid, I loved all the monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man...so this was a natural. And that riff!
	👻 11:40am Hughie Considine: Saw Johnny & Edgar at the Felt Forum w. Mahogany Rush. A rockin' show!
	11:40am The Oscar: Now I'm imagining 5-year-old Joe driving around in an airbrushed van.
	11:41am Roberto: I think that was an abbreviated version of Hocus Pocus.
	11:41am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL can't remember if mine was RCA or GE, really wish I still had the damn thing tho :(
	11:41am Colleen: I wanted to marry Frankenstein when I was little....and Donnie Osmond
	11:41am Zetti: Love the performances by Focus and Edger Winter on The Old Whistle Test.
	11:41am prudy: this rhino collection is a killer. When it was released they sold it with a peace of shag carpeting.
	11:41am Jackie: Happy Birthday, Joe!
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Jackie!!
	11:42am Linda Lee: this was one of my first albums. mainly i was fascinated with the guy's looks.
	11:42am Granny Spicy Tuna: That Super Hits series really collected some fun stuff together.
	11:42am Linda Lee: @prudy ~ are you kidding me? :-D who'd want 'a piece' of shag carpeting? ya gotta do the whole house!
	11:43am Roberto: And that was an abbreviated Frankenstein.
	11:43am TheLoneliestMonk: Johnny & Edgar: WHITE TRASH!
	11:43am Jackie: you've got the perfect day to skip out early! (and have someone else make your lunch)
	👻 11:43am Hughie Considine: The caped crusader, Rick Wakeman!
	11:43am melinda: @Oscar haha! It did move into different musical territory there.
	11:43am Booz: I listened to this Six Wives LP so many times, the grooves are worn.
	11:44am Itzall Ablurr: Can "Tubular Bells" be far behind?
	11:45am Linda Lee: well, 'tubular bells' would just about slay me.
	11:45am Clay Pigeon: Yes! Wakeman!
	11:45am Mike tp: walked in on nice Rick!!!!!!
	11:45am Linda Lee: welcome to the party, Clay! :-)
	11:45am Joe McG: @Itzall: It took me a long time to hear that music since "The Exorcist" traumatized me as a kid and permanently put me off horror movies.
	11:45am Mike tp: walked in on nice Rick
	11:46am pantz: Oh man! One of my stoner uncles had Wakeman's Journey To The Center of The Earth and I would listen to it over and over. I was probably a little older than 5 though.
	👻 11:46am tadpoles: Late to the party today so will listen later but love a bit of prog. Hearing "Lucky Man" by ELP at the end of some recent film whose name escapes me made me realize again...it was good.
	11:46am Franco Twinkie: Back in the day, you could always find a good scrap of shag in the dumpster of Carpeteria, the store that had a giant genie on the roof holding a rolled up rug over his head.
	11:46am TheLoneliestMonk: Was tubular bells a single? I know it was a relative hit...
	👻 11:46am Brian in UK: Do we all get a party bag?
	11:46am Roberto: I had never really seen The Exorcist until I watched with my kid recently. Funny AF.
	👻 11:47am Hughie Considine: Jesus!!!!!!!
	11:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: YES. This was a fave for sure!!!!
	11:47am Zetti: Cool
	11:47am Brendan: Rick’s RRHOF speech was great:https://youtu.be/oYnOZHxtGG4
	11:47am Roberto: I prefer the Muppet version of this.
	11:47am Linda Lee: Joe, that's a shame ~ after loving all those nice cool monsters. oh no! Jesus Christ Superstar! i played the London Production recording to absolute death. also saw the show ten times running.
	11:47am Colleen: YES!!!
	11:47am prudy: Love the whole Superstar broadway recording.
	👻 11:48am Hughie Considine: I had to keep my love of JCS a secret. We were a Godspell family...
	11:48am Lisa in Tpa: Judas! This song has been bouncing around in my brain for days. Weeks.
	11:48am mjgoins: This is a bit like Magma
	11:48am Itzall Ablurr: Haha. Joe, I hear ya. I sneaked into a drive-in to see The Exorcist when I was a pup- I had NO idea how freaked out it would make me, but of course I also LOVED it!
	11:49am prudy: loved Godspell also. Don't know if I could listen now.
	11:49am Linda Lee: i met Jeff Fenholt! he signed my record cover! a prize possession.
	11:49am Granny Spicy Tuna: I'm doing my back-up dancing choreography!!!
	11:49am Joe McG: I watched this movie on TV every Easter for a decade.
	👻 11:50am Hughie Considine: In the final analysis, Superstar holds up much better, @prudy
	11:50am Linda Lee: i saw Godspell as well, off Broadway. tiny theatre. very cool
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Joe, great show. Get well quickly.
	👻 11:50am Hughie Considine: Tenacious D actually does a pretty ripping cover of this.
	11:50am prudy: agree with you Considine
	11:50am kerbo: I love it. good tradition Joe. happy 50!
	11:51am chresti: 1969 okay, didn’t have a lot to say....’cuz you were a baby ! Happy birthday Joe!
	11:51am melinda: I remember listening to JCS at night with the old giant headphones as a young one. I still prefer to listen to it after dark.
	11:51am Mr. Palchepo.: Damn it. Why won’t this stereo go louder?
	👻 11:51am Hughie Considine: It was a very Jesus-y time.
	11:51am Ike: I once blew Wm. Berger's mind by telling him that I didn't get much out of The Exorcist. I don't know, it didn't do that much for me. Maybe it helps to be Catholic? Ha.
	👻 11:51am 12539: Thanks and Happy Birthday, Joe! 50 is the new 5!
	11:51am yippie: do you know Charlie purple?
	11:52am Linda Lee: check this out. i adored this show. www.youtube.com...
	11:52am Bill W: My parents had a Nat Cole best-of I heard, for sure.
	11:52am Linda Lee: the first voice i recognized on radio: Nat King Cole.
	11:52am The Oscar: @Hughie Funny-- never heard that cover, but JCS always makes me think of Jack Black in the Mr. Show skit "Jeepers Creepers, Semi-star"
	11:53am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL what about The Fantasticks? Jerry Orbach once said there were probly more NYC kids conceived to that than any other musical. It was the official cheap theater date for years
	11:53am Franco Twinkie: I saw The Exorcist at the Wiltern in L.A. when it was still a two dollar movie theater. I was really stoned and had to look at my feet for the first part of the movie.
	11:54am Joe McG: Was I the only one super terrified by the Winged Monkeys?
	👻 11:54am Hughie Considine: @Oscar, will have to chase that one down. He was made for the musical stage.
	11:54am steveo: no!
	11:54am Linda Lee: i never saw the Fantasticks! my mom did though. she saw them all.
	11:54am Davis: ah
	👻 11:54am queems: the wizard of oz is some of my first memories of color
	11:54am melinda: I tried watching The Exorcist recently but my DVD player wouldn't play it, I guess it was a sign.
	11:54am Linda Lee: no Joe, you were not.
	11:55am judy from croton: Ok knew I ‘d be crying soon
	11:55am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, every song on that JCSS is exciting to me, and i was brought up a heathen. Finally saw a production in 1993 with the original Jesus and Judas in the cast.
	11:55am yippie: I was really spooked by the flying monkeys I had to hold my moms hand
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for indulging my musical autobiography as a 5 year old!
	11:55am paul: One of a handful of songs that make me cry.
	11:55am judy from croton: Correction: sobbing
	11:56am Linda Lee: i was also terrified by that flying bicycle music, when Miss Gulch robs the dog.
	11:56am Davis: this is magic
	11:56am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"...Summer's song. Forever.
	11:56am steveo: Dang no Captain & Tennille (see what good taste you have?). (It was Nate K. who recently played the Dragons, Joe, you played them a few years ago.) What a wonderful and special set. Happy birthday!
	11:56am prudy: thanks Joe for a great stroll down memory lane.
	👻 11:56am tadpoles: Wow just reading the comments board to realize it's your big decade turner birthday Joe...with a neat mix of music. Happy Birthday and enjoy the Rock 'n' Rolling '50's!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks again for all the great birthday wishes! You made this one special. :) See you next week!
	👻 11:56am queems: thanks, joe! happy birthday!
	👻 11:56am b!!!: Wonderful set!
	11:56am Brendan: This should segue right into some Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow nicely I think
	11:57am TheLoneliestMonk: Thanks for spending your birthday with us JoeMac, this was a fun one!
	11:57am Franco Twinkie: My favorite Judy Garland song is her cover of Purple People Eater.
	11:57am Linda Lee: Granny, how in the name of God did those guys do that show 20 years later? it was very demanding!
	11:57am Brendan: @Joe thank you for sharing!
	11:57am Krys O.: Thanks, Joe! Enjoy the rest of your birthday!
	11:58am bianca bob: Lovely set! Happy Birthday to youse!
	11:58am Itzall Ablurr: I am NOT crying. NOPE. BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! And if THIS one makes you cry, check out Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'Ole's version. It will break you down.
	11:58am Granny Spicy Tuna: Funny "Wizard of Oz" story. Was watching the beginning on TV (age 3 or 4) and then we drove to my grandparents house to watch the rest, and it was in color! A grown-up said, "Oh, they'd just invented color." And i thought they meant right then that very minute. Blown away.
	11:59am TheLoneliestMonk: Loved single file & favs @ 5 today!
	11:59am Linda Lee: jumping around like a maniac & make crazy noises is life. thank you, Joe!
	11:59am Santos L Halper: Welcome to the 50s Joe! And thanks for the good old tunes, I was right back there with ya (Troglodyte et al also catnip for a nine year old : )
	11:59am Itzall Ablurr: G.S.P., that's amazingly endearing.
	11:59am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, the show was amazing and their performances were thrilling. Good trainers, i guess???
	11:59am Parq: Hi, Joe. Your dad played in a band that did Santana covers? Cool!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 14, 2019

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January 14, 2019: I'm Younger Than That Now

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Les Paul & Mary Ford	Smoke Rings "Smoke Rings" by "Les Paul & Mary Ford"	Bye Bye Blues!	Capitol	1955	LP			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Julie London	It Never Entered My Mind	Julie Is Her Name	Liberty	1955	LP			0:04:52 (Pop-up)
Claudia Thompson	If I Should Lose You	Goodbye to Love	Modern Harmonic	2016	LP	From 1959		0:07:55 (Pop-up)
Kikí d'Akí	Tiempo de Amar "Tiempo de Amar" by "Kikí d'Akí"	Breve Encuentro	Munster	2018	CD		*	0:10:57 (Pop-up)
Everything But the Girl	On My Mind	Pillows and Prayers (Cherry Red 1982-1983)	Cherry Red	1982	LP			0:13:39 (Pop-up)
Marine Girls	Second Sight "Second Sight" by "Marine Girls"	Lazy Ways	Tiger Bay	2017	LP	From 1983		0:16:26 (Pop-up)
Frente!	Bizarre Love Triangle "Bizarre Love Triangle" by "Frente!"	Labour of Love	Mammoth	1994	CD			0:19:28 (Pop-up)
Lloyd Cole	Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?	No album	No Label	2014	MP3	live on Evan Davies' program		0:21:30 (Pop-up)
En Dag	Tema För Ugglan "Tema För Ugglan" by "En Dag"	En Dag	Voix	2018	LP		*	0:23:42 (Pop-up)
Mary Lou Lord	Some Jingle Jangle Morning	Alternagrrrls: Surface Noise's 2018 Marathon Premium	WFMU	2018	CD-R	From 1993		0:28:55 (Pop-up)
Frente!	Not Given Lightly "Not Given Lightly" by "Frente!"	Labour of Love	Mammoth	1994	CD			0:32:16 (Pop-up)

Robert Drasnin	Chant of the Moon "Chant of the Moon" by "Robert Drasnin"	Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights	The Numero Group	2018	CD	From 1960		0:45:01 (Pop-up)
Chayns	Live with the Moon "Live with the Moon" by "Chayns"	Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights	The Numero Group	2018	CD	From 1966		0:47:11 (Pop-up)
The Monzas	Forever Walks a Drifter	Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights	The Numero Group	2018	CD	From 1966		0:49:55 (Pop-up)
Ido Martin	Mambo for Latin Lovers	Britxotica Goes Wild! Percussive Pop & Crazy Latin	Trunk	2018	LP		*	0:53:38 (Pop-up)
Brown Sugar	I'm So Proud "I'm So Proud" by "Brown Sugar"	I'm In Love With a Dreadlocks: Brown Sugar and the Birth of Lovers Rock 1977-80	Soul Jazz	2018	CD		*	0:57:13 (Pop-up)
Brown Sugar	Loneliness (Will Bring Us Together Again)	single	Chelsea	1973	45	R.I.P. Clydie King		1:04:23 (Pop-up)
Sunshine & the Rain	Just Stay "Just Stay" by "Sunshine & the Rain"	Beneath the Stars	Ernest Jenning Record Co.	2018	LP			1:07:18 (Pop-up)
Richard Papiercuts	A Place to Stay	Twisting the Night EP	ever/never	2018	LP		*	1:11:28 (Pop-up)
Part Time	Spell #6 "Spell #6" by "Part Time"	Spell #6	Burger	2018	CD		*	1:14:50 (Pop-up)
Gary Olson	The Old Twin "The Old Twin" by "Gary Olson"	single	Kus	2018	45		*	1:21:04 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of 45s all in a disorderly row
The Byrds	My Back Pages "My Back Pages" by "The Byrds"	single	Columbia	1967	45			1:31:37 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield	I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself	single	Philips	1965	45			1:34:28 (Pop-up)
Tennessee Ernie with Cliffie Stone's Orch.	Blackberry Boogie	single	Capitol	1952	45			1:36:42 (Pop-up)
DEVO	Working in the Coal Mine "Working in the Coal Mine" by "DEVO"	single	Warner Bros.	1981	45			1:39:08 (Pop-up)
Rhythm Makers	You're Never Too Old (To Get On Down)	single	Vigor	1974	45			1:41:56 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith	Get It Up "Get It Up" by "Aerosmith"	single	Columbia	1977	45			1:45:29 (Pop-up)
Mitty Collier	I Can't Lose "I Can't Lose" by "Mitty Collier"	single	Peachtree	1969	45			1:49:23 (Pop-up)
Travis Wammack	Scratchy "Scratchy" by "Travis Wammack"	single	ARA	1964	45	just like this record!		1:51:27 (Pop-up)
Grand Larceny	Jumpin' Jack Flash "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by "Grand Larceny"	single	Galaxy	1974	45			1:54:07 (Pop-up)

My Favorites at Five (Shaving Off the 0)
Jimmie Rodgers	The Wizard "The Wizard" by "Jimmie Rodgers"	single	Roulette	1958	45	the first record I remember loving		2:08:05 (Pop-up)
The Surfaris	Wipe Out "Wipe Out" by "The Surfaris"	single	Dot	1962	45			2:10:11 (Pop-up)
1910 Fruitgum Co.	Simon Says "Simon Says" by "1910 Fruitgum Co."	single	Buddah	1968	45	OK, so this IS kind of a kid's record!		2:12:31 (Pop-up)
Petula Clark	Downtown "Downtown" by "Petula Clark"	single	Warner Bros.	1965	45			2:14:42 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	You Really Got Me "You Really Got Me" by "The Kinks"	single	Reprise	1964	45			2:17:45 (Pop-up)
The Beatles	Ticket to Ride "Ticket to Ride" by "The Beatles"	1962-1966	Apple	1973	LP	From 1965		2:20:01 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys	I Get Around "I Get Around" by "The Beach Boys"	Endless Summer	Capitol	1974	LP	From 1964		2:22:56 (Pop-up)
George McCrae	Rock Your Baby "Rock Your Baby" by "George McCrae"	single	T.K.	1974	45			2:25:01 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Castor Bunch	Troglodyte (Cave Man)	single	RCA	1972	45	my teacher must have been really impressed that i knew what "troglodyte" meant		2:28:15 (Pop-up)
Santana	Oye Como Va "Oye Como Va" by "Santana"	Abraxas	Columbia	1970	LP	Dad used to play this one with his band		2:31:34 (Pop-up)
Focus	Hocus Pocus "Hocus Pocus" by "Focus"	Dutch Masters	Sire	1975	LP	From 1970		2:35:46 (Pop-up)
The Edgar Winter Group	Frankenstein	Super Hits of the '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 9	Rhino	1990	CD	From 1972		2:39:06 (Pop-up)
Rick Wakeman	Catherine of Aragon "Catherine of Aragon" by "Rick Wakeman"	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	A&M	1973	LP	I guess I was a bit prog as a 5 year-old		2:42:34 (Pop-up)
Carl Anderson	Heaven on Their Minds	Jesus Christ Superstar: The Original Motion Picture Sound Track Album	MCA	1973	LP	I was raised Catholic, so this was a mindblower, and very, very popular		2:46:08 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole	Pretend "Pretend" by "Nat King Cole"	The Nat King Cole Story	Capitol	1963	MP3	From 1953		2:50:33 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Over the Rainbow "Over the Rainbow" by "Judy Garland"	The Wizard of Oz: Original Soundtrack, Deluxe Edition	Rhino	2009	CD	From 1938		2:53:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 9:02am 12539: Heigh ho!
	9:02am Rev. Turnip Druid: as they say, yip.
	9:02am TDK60: DJ Joe, hello!
	9:03am The Oscar: Mornin' all! Always happy to hear some Les & Mary.
	👻 9:03am Ken From Hyde Park: OK, now it's Monday. Boing boing!
	9:03am Linda Lee: what a lovely opener. good morning Joe! Happy Birthday! :-)
	9:05am TDK60: Weren't Paul/Ford the very first to double-track guitar/voice?..early at least huh?
	9:05am Granny Spicy Tuna: Les and Mary, what lushness… It's your birthday? Many sparkling wishes for all the best in this next dance around the sun!
	9:06am Vince Nifigance: Go, go, Joe McGasko.
	9:06am Krys O.: Good morning, Joe! Thanks for the lush sounds.
	9:06am Rev. Turnip Druid: great beginning. Could it be that Skeeter Davis is on the horizon? Could it?!?!?! .... it is the end of the world, after all...
	9:06am Granny Spicy Tuna: And, ooh, oh my, JULIE!
	9:07am Guido from Cologne: Good morning Joe! Many happy returns of the day!
	9:07am annie: good morning joe! many happy returns for your birthday!
	9:07am Henry in Hopatcong: Happy birthday Joe!
	9:07am steveo: easin' into monday like
	👻 9:08am Brian in UK: Hey Joe. Happy Capricorns.
	9:08am Joe McG: Thanks for the birthday wishes! There's no better way to spend my birthday than on the radio with you!
	9:09am Hoboken Jack: Happy birthday, Joe! Hello Ken, Krys, all.
	👻 9:09am Brian in UK: Hey Monica, great start!!
	9:10am Colleen: Oh...Thank you for this!!
	9:10am steveo: there's no better way for us to spend your birthday either -- felicitations!
	9:11am Colleen: Hey! Happy Birthday!
	9:11am The Oscar: Man, I was a fool in my record store days for ignoring the Pop Vocal drawers for my store plays. Also, HBDJMcG!
	9:11am TDK60: Happy birthday Joe, how young are you now?
	9:11am pantz: Happy 30th B-Day, Joe!
	9:13am TDK60: ..although I think that astro stuff is hooey, I'm a Capricorn too.
	9:14am Lixiviated Life: well... I'm back. oh joy
	9:14am Krys O.: Oh, goodness, Tracy's voice makes everything better.
	9:14am Rev. Turnip Druid: Hooey!
	9:15am Krys O.: Happy Birthday, Joe!
	👻 9:15am James in ATL: Happiest birthday wishes to you Joe!
	9:15am Granny Spicy Tuna: Hooray for hooey! What isn't hooey anyway? Let's play some Harvey Sid Fisher!
	9:16am Krys O.: Hey, Hoboken Jack and everyone!
	9:16am TDK60: Krys O, what's shakin' in Bloomfield?
	9:16am Linda Lee: any belief system that doesn't appeal is hooey. if it appeals, it's revelation. so be it. i only ask that it not be required. :-D
	9:17am melinda: Nice set Joe!
	9:18am Krys O.: @TDK60: Bloomfield is still reeling from a pedestrian death in my neighborhood last Friday. Very tragic. Happened in broad daylight.
	9:18am melinda: and happy birthday!
	9:18am Linda Lee: car accident, Krys?
	9:18am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Well put, Linda Lee.
	9:19am ami ad: Top of the morning D.J. Joe,hello fellow listeners.Hope all is well out there in the Jersey state.Keep U.S freeform.Shalom.
	9:20am Linda Lee: here's a nice spot for Mary Lou Lord! :-)
	👻 9:20am karlward: This (and especially the New Order original) is a perfect pop song.
	9:22am TDK60: Sorry to hear Krys O.
	9:23am Maggie B.: happy birthday, Joe!
	9:24am Joe McG: Thanks everybody. Me and Dave Grohl, soul brothers.
	9:25am Fernando P.: Frente’s BLT version was a huge (MTV) hit in Brazil at the time. Was it in the US also?
	9:26am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Holy cow, hadn't thought of Mary Lou Lord in awhile, and that just catapulted me into a mid-90's memory lane, my brief stint in Cambridge. Everybody be safe out there in the wild, wicked world. Hope your neighborhood finds comfort and healing, Krys.
	9:27am Joe McG: @Fernando: No, they got some college radio play, but no hits as far as I know.
	9:27am Rev. Turnip Druid: and yet you haven't lost your Grohlish figure.
	9:27am steveo: beautiful set you got here, mister
	9:27am ami ad: Happy Birthday Dave Grohl and his ultimate soul brother.Hip hip.
	9:28am Joe McG: Thanks, ami! Anybody mind if I play another Frente! song? I'm in the mood.
	9:30am cluebucket: g'ahead!
	9:30am Joe McG: Who says I don't take requests?
	👻 9:30am karlward: I'm super into that distorted bass on "Some Jingle Jangle Morning."
	9:31am Linda Lee: love the Mary Lou! thank you Joe!
	👻 9:32am Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, wishing you the biggest Happy Birthday, Joe! youtu.be...
	9:33am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Joe, it's your day! Listening to this Mary Lou Lord i can close my eyes and see younger me wearing a thrift store dress, big clunky shoes and too much eyebrow pencil. Ahhh…
	9:33am Mike Wolf: ah, the Frente cover double-play
	9:34am Mike Wolf: More people should’ve been covering more of his songs so that Chris Knox would be a wealthy person today
	9:34am Linda Lee: was just reading about the utter sh*t show involving Mary Lou Lord & Courtney Love. who needs that grief in their lives?
	9:36am melinda: What is the shit show LL?
	9:36am Linda Lee: you've got the best bed music on air, Joe.
	9:36am Jeff Moore: I love Frente! I kind of forgot about them, then remembered and played this very song a few weeks ago. Glad to hear them getting more attention.
	9:37am Linda Lee: melinda dear, just goggle both their names.
	9:38am Your Ace From Exchange Place: Happy birthday, Joe!
	9:38am leylou: I agree. what beautiful songs I found myself listening to! (to listen to on a quiet super windy afternoon, in the midst of national turmoil)
	9:38am KP in DC: Hello Joe, from iced in Dixie
	9:38am MplsCoco: Happy Birthday Joe!!! ❤️❤️ Your voice sounds sexy!
	9:38am Rev. Turnip Druid: not just any crud, mind you. THE crud.
	9:39am andyplants: Happy birthday Joe
	9:39am Granny S Tuna. Esq: I recall the old CL vs MLL feud. It was hard to stay out of riot grrrl feuds in those days. I had to squirm out of a few myself, staying just obscure enough to not matter to some of the bloodthirsty beasts of that era. Just don't talk to me about Ben Is Dead zine, heh heh…
	9:39am KP in DC: We have the crud in Washington too
	9:40am Jeff Moore: Happy birthday, Joe! And thanks, asshole. I'm getting a scratchy throat and the sneezes.
	9:41am elwyn: Thanks for the MLL and Frente. Which MLL album was that from? It sounded different from the one I have. Frente... they have a special place in the hearts of all Australians of my generation.
	9:41am Phillippe Bastille: Good morning everyone
	9:41am BetsyO: Happy Zippity Yip Birthday Joe!!! ...................... Sto lat, sto lat, Niech żyje, żyje nam. Sto lat, sto lat, Niech żyje, żyje nam, Jeszcze raz, jeszcze raz, Niech żyje, żyje nam, Niech żyje nam .........................
	9:42am Linda Lee: i'm with you re Spotify, Joe. honestly, Granny, the older i get the stupider it all looks. one perk of aging. :-D
	9:42am Linda Lee: good morning, Phillippe!
	9:43am Phillippe Bastille: Hey Linda, how are you?
	9:43am steveo: more captain and tennille!
	9:43am Linda Lee: the '50s are fabulous, Joe. we finally begin realizing what really matters. don't worry.
	9:44am Colleen: Awwww sorry Joe!
	9:44am steveo: (that dragons album you hipped us to last week is interesting!)
	9:44am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Linda Lee, so glad to care so much less. My near misses with underground fame and the egomaniacal shenanigans of the more…ambitious… ones cured me of my worldy ways and sent me back home to my cats and my bathtub.
	9:44am Robert Tables: Damn Joe, 50?!?! You had me fooled. Happy birthday!
	9:44am jess: happy birthday everybody!
	9:44am Phillippe Bastille: 60s suck though
	9:44am Linda Lee: @Phillippe Bastille ~ i'm still here, love. thank you. i listened to adult pop at 5 too, Joe. that was 1965. i was very lucky.
	9:44am melinda: This will be fun, a journey into the mind of 5-year-old Joe!
	9:44am David Colangelo: You sick old man...pathetic...
	👻 9:45am Brian in UK: Hearing Frente! My mind took a sidetrack to Michael Franti's Ofcourse You Can'. Well it is freeform. Joe, does Nelly the Elephant figure on your kindergarten hits?
	9:45am prudy: i'm with you LL. The significant things in life really begin to shine.
	9:45am The Oscar: Technicolor Paradise is so great! When my girlfriend and I took a vacation to Maine last summer I insisted on playing it constantly in the car, despite the fact that Maine is objectively less tropical than our usual climes.
	9:45am jess: I'll be 50 this year. not looking forward to it...
	9:46am Joe McG: Nice, BetsyO! Thanks! Yes, I'm 50 now. You can call me Gramps McGasko from now on.
	9:46am Colleen: Fantastic! Hey there Linda Lee!!
	9:46am prudy: looking forward to the 5 part of the show. that would make it around 1974, right Joe?
	9:47am The Oscar: @Joe That's honestly a great DJ name.
	9:47am Linda Lee: i feel sorry for the 60 year old adolescents. honestly, how much time have they got to waste?
	9:47am Itzall Ablurr: Hi Joe, happy birthday. So nice and unexpected to hear Robert Drasnin on your show. Love it!
	9:47am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Speaking of way back when, i'm one of the characters in a doc about the wack San Francisco scene between the AIDS crisis and the Tech Boom: "SF89." Should be coming out in a year or two, lots of my crappy camcorder footage will be featured. Yeah!
	9:47am Joe McG: @prudy: You got it!
	9:48am JtotheK: @The Oscar - agreed, Technicolor Paradise is terrific. And props to (Drummer Streamer) Little Danny for his work on it!
	👻 9:48am b!!!: Happy Birthday Joe!!
	9:48am The Oscar: This Chayns is maybe my favorite on the set. Love that little guitar lick.
	9:48am Ike: 50?!? You don't look a day over 40! And your voice doesn't currently sound a day over 93!
	9:48am Rev. Turnip Druid: did that particular birthday a bit earlier last year. in grand style. of course. ... welcome to the sacred gang.
	9:48am Linda Lee: you could be the New Old Codger, Joe! :-) that's great news, Granny! look forward to seeing you!
	👻 9:48am karlward: Oh man. There's going to be so much Alice Cooper.
	👻 9:49am karlward: I'm actually not sure how I feel about that.
	9:49am Granny S Tuna. Esq: Wack, wacky— both apply, i suppose. Joe, jess and all the 1969 babies— me, too! I was born between Helter Skelter and Woodstock.
	9:49am JtotheK: ((And hello Joe, happy birthday! Hi everyone.))
	9:49am The Oscar: @JtotheK I didn't know that! That same trip we also listened to Danny's premium from last year, and we even noted that how much in the same vein it was!
	9:50am Linda Lee: hiya Colleen!
	9:50am ami ad: Many more Joe,many more.Appreciate the good sounds and chill vibes.Thanks and Praise.
	9:51am KP in DC: Mary Lou Lord has been doing well lately. She has been working with Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond, who wrote her signature song, “Lights are Changing.”
	9:52am JtotheK: @The Oscar, there was also a magazine/periodical about exotica as a tie in with that comp. It's worth a read.
	9:52am Linda Lee: good to hear that, KP!
	9:53am David Colangelo: Best song 1973, Feeling Stronger Every Day....Chicago
	9:55am heyitschris: Just got here. Happy Birthday Joe! Hope this is a great year for you.
	9:55am Linda Lee: not possible, David! we still had Ziggy Stardust.
	9:55am The Oscar: @JtotheK I got that, and totally agree! Exotica is one of the genres I could listen to completely uncritically for hours and not get sick of it.
	9:57am Linda Lee: @The Oscar ~ totally agree. i'd also like to know why we don't have an exotica/lounge & easily listening show on fmu.
	👻 9:58am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Alright! Made it for the Birthday Show! Happy Birthday Joe!!
	9:59am Joe McG: @Ike: Ha ha! @karl: I didn't hear any Alice until the mid-70s, so Alice free. @Trista: Thanks!!
	9:59am The Oscar: @LL Have you checked out The Explorer's Room on GTDR? Covers a lot of ground musically, but exotica is definitely the baseline.
	9:59am Ike: @LL, I think there was one circa 1994, possibly before anybody else did it. Also Irwin and a guy named Tom Crowe used to play a ton of that stuff in the 90s and helped start that trend.
	9:59am Linda Lee: i'd say it's time to revisit the concept. for the youngsters.
	10:00am BetsyO: @Joe McG,... the Polish Sto Lat Birthday song is wishing you to see 100, so you’re half way there,... which means we get to hear your show for decades to come. https://youtu.be/mGdytuGZhj4
	10:01am Joe McG: @BetsyO: So sweet! Stashu sang it to me a couple of years ago!
	10:01am Linda Lee: i really do need to check out GTDR in depth. i have sinned in avoidance.
	10:02am highlowe: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Looking forward to hearing what those 5 year old ears took in! I for one am happy that you are here!
	10:02am djsheilab: Happy birthday Joe! I've been listening since the start and have been enjoying your selections immensely. Glad you're treating yourself to your five-year-old favorites!
	10:03am BetsyO: @JoeMcG,... though this version by Lil’ Wally is way more up tempo and fitting! https://youtu.be/Xfof-CvCShU
	10:04am Joe McG: Thanks so much, highlowe! My 5 year old taste is pretty oddball, I must say. But you'll hear! @Sheila: Thank you so much! I can't wait to play them. :)
	10:04am Linda Lee: when you were 5, Joe, I was 13 ~ but i know i'll dig that set!
	10:05am Granny Spicy Tuna: The GTDR stream is a treasure, and Sheena's Jungle Room has plenty of Exotica surges…
	10:06am Granny Spicy Tuna: Yes, i majorly blame/credit Irwin for that Lounge revival of the 90's, and my freelance go-go dancing days…
	10:08am Linda Lee: i'm 100% certain i could spend every waking moment with fmu/fm or the stream & be a better person for it ~ but i must exert judgement lest i petrify.
	10:08am joe: 'Ello Folks Happy Birthday Joe
	10:09am The Oscar: Spotting Irwin's name in the liner notes of various oddball comps in the '90s (as well as Songs in the Key of Z) is what brought me to WFMU in the first place :)
	10:09am TheLoneliestMonk: JoeMac is the birthday boy today?? Many happy returns, pal!
	10:09am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, i have been experimenting with almost nonstop WFMU attendance, and it has literally been a life saver for me. YAY, WFMU!!!
	10:10am Linda Lee: wfmu works its magic once again! :-) so glad.
	10:10am TheLoneliestMonk: ...and was that some dubstep I heard trailing off just now...on surface noise??
	10:10am Joe McG: Yes, Irwin had a lot to do with the price of all those lounge and exotica records going up! Highly recommend The Explorer's Room, btw, if you like that sound like I do.
	10:11am thatpatsmith: Belated Happy Birthday, Joe!
	10:12am pantz: I learned of WFMU through a Metafilter post about Tom Scharpling many years ago. After a few beers with a buddy from New Jersey, I was convinced to listen to more programs. Now I donate what scraps I can afford, because it's so worth it.
	10:12am The Oscar: The nice thing about my day job is it gives me an excuse to listen to 8 to 9 hours of WFMU a day! I'm not sure I could have made the transition from the record store to the office without it.
	10:14am Linda Lee: i can actually remember lounge/exotica the first time around ~ loved it even as a wee tot.
	10:15am Joe McG: This is not The Smiths, I swear.
	10:16am Linda Lee: i was just about to say: another perk of aging is being able to hear musical influences very easily.
	10:17am Joe McG: @Linda Lee: A bit of an occupational hazard, I'm afraid.
	10:17am joe: I learned about WFMU as I started to hang around the shadier part of the dial roughly about the same time that media was picking up on the attempt to knock down FMU's power in the 90's
	10:18am joe: Now now let's not Smiths shame here. :)
	10:18am The Oscar: One of my dreams is to install a switch in my home that automatically plays Martin Denny, like Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
	10:18am TheLoneliestMonk: Actually, this dude sounds a bit like Stephen Merritt, to my ears
	10:18am Linda Lee: you don't think it makes curating easier, Joe?
	10:18am JakeGould: First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!!!!
	10:19am Joe McG: @joe: Never! I love them unashamedly.
	10:19am mb: happy birthday Joe McGasko!! I hope you get laid tonight or at the very least stare at some Exotica record covers and enjoy yourself with a drink or two. Cheers!
	10:19am Joe McG: Thanks, Jake, thatpat, Monk and everybody!
	10:20am Joe McG: @mb: From your mouth to God's ear.
	10:20am Brendan: Leave it to Morrissey. An otherwise happy, I’m in love song. And you’d think somebody died. I hope he doesn’t have any Birthday songs in his repertoire.
	10:21am JakeGould: @LindaLee: As someone who first discovered WFMU in 1992 when I moved to my own place in Park Slope when I was younger, I can tell you there definitely was exotica on the main station then. But I wasn’t into it. Then I stopped listening to WFMU about 1995 when I moved away and “streaming” the RealAudio stream meant tying up my phone line with a 56k modem connection and started listening again around 2014 or so. Anyway… Age!
	10:21am TheLoneliestMonk: As the 'mats would say, it all happens on the left side of the dial "And if I don't see ya, in a long, long while I'll try to find you Left of the dial"
	10:25am Susan C.: Happy Birthday, Joe!!! Rejoice in the quantity and quality of life! XO
	10:26am Granny Spicy Tuna: Emotional entanglements? Nevah hoid of 'em…
	10:27am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac are you getting over a head cold? You sound different on BT speaker, dude
	10:28am Linda Lee: @JakeGould ~ we have a sort-of-similar fmu history. i found fmu when we moved to williamsburg in 85. (no reception before then in manhattan.) i went to north carolina in 93 ~ finally found the stream at about the same time you did, dial-up. it worked, however. i made it back to those juicy radio waves in 2006!
	10:29am SheWolf: Happy B day my fellow Capricorn.
	10:30am duke: I stumbled on WFMU around 2001. I found a website that had a collection of R&B and Rockabilly. Someone on the site said if you like this, you like Fool's Paradise on WFMU.org. I checked it out and I've been stuck since. Rex was my WFMU gateway drug.
	👻 10:31am queems: i bought technicolor paradise last year!!
	10:31am Linda Lee: 'old' is in the mind, Joe!
	👻 10:32am queems: also good morning! i'm late
	10:32am Lixiviated Life: Joey Mc, Confessing that I love your radio program. Ok, I said it.
	10:33am Joe McG: @queems: We get our copies late sometimes, but I'm very happy we have it now.
	10:33am TheLoneliestMonk: @duke for me it was when the had Joe Frank leading into to Dave Emory and then Dave the spazz
	10:33am melinda: Bummed to have missed the exotica. I'm a big fan of Explorers' Room, Flash also does great themed shows featuring exotica-adjacent musics.
	10:33am Mike Sin: Well, now -- Happy birthday, Joe McG!
	10:33am lukavino: the first time i ever heard "My Back Pages", it was a live cut and i think it involved Tom Petty in some capacity.
	10:34am lukavino: anyway, this song is beautiful. happy birthday, Joe.
	10:34am KP in DC: I was much older then
	10:34am Marc Francis: Bonne fête Joe!!!!
	10:35am lukavino: "here's a picture of me when i was older." - Mitch Hedberg
	10:35am sinner: 60 ain't the new nothing.
	10:36am joe: @lukavion maybe the Dylan 30th Anniversary www.youtube.com...
	10:36am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy B'day, Joe!
	10:36am Linda Lee: @LL ~ those heartfelt admissions are important! this is how i know i'm loved especially by a certain fmu personality.
	10:36am Joe McG: Thanks, all!
	10:37am lukavino: oh, far out, joe. i think that was it.
	👻 10:38am queems: oh, happy birthday, @joe mcg!!
	10:38am Linda Lee: next up: the flat foot floogie with the floy floy! (really the same tune.)
	10:38am highlowe: i needed an excuse to eat cake today! Thanks Joe!
	10:38am Roger: Blackberry Boogie! I proposed to my wife to this song!
	10:40am melinda: @Linda haha
	10:40am The Oscar: LOOORRRRRRD.
	10:40am robot rattle: Love that transition!
	10:40am John: LOVE this Devo song
	10:40am steveo: oh great, another song from the Heavy Metal soundtrack ;)
	10:41am judy from croton: Nice, joe! Happy Birthday
	10:41am The Oscar: This would probably be on a playlist of songs I loved when I was 10. (The rest would probably be Weird Al.)
	10:41am Michael Shelley: !
	10:42am judy from croton: At least you don’t owe your soul to the company store
	10:43am Linda Lee: '16 tons' was a childhood fave!
	10:43am Granny Spicy Tuna: queeeems, let's DANCE!!!
	10:45am pantz: I'm not too old to get down, but I just can't get back up.
	10:46am pantz: There's a dad joke for your bday, Joe!
	10:46am ?: https://mentalfloss.com/article/569991/50-things-turning-50-2019
	10:46am frozen_peas: Happy bday Joe! you're never too old (to keep playin the hits)
	10:46am Linda Lee: hear you there, pantz! :-D
	10:46am John: Ahh Aerosmith now have not heard this song in a while
	10:47am TheLoneliestMonk: @@JM next up, 'up for the down stroke' by PFunk?
	10:47am judy from croton: Dang. I was wondering whether you were 30 or 40.
	10:47am JakeGould: Now finally some really rock and roll music! Makes me want to drink wine out of a Pringles can and ride a scooter around a Wal*Mart parking lot. www.ajc.com...
	10:49am TheLoneliestMonk: JoeMac is like jack Benny, doesn't age and is perpetually 39!
	10:49am Joe McG: @John: I can't believe someone at their record company thought this would be a hit.
	10:49am Joe McG: Thanks for the old man joke, pantz!
	10:49am frozen_peas: @JakeGould Now I do too!
	10:50am joe: @JoeMcG all that can be said to that thought of being a hit is Oh Cocaine you silly thing you.
	10:50am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac re:Aerosmith Was gonna say, this is 45 material?
	10:52am Linda Lee: i'm a little disturbed to find some of the 'things' turning 50 this year (from mental floss) are people.
	10:52am TheLoneliestMonk: @joe @JoeMac BwaHa! Those were the days when the record execs did just as much blow as the artists they signed...sometimes right alongside them!
	👻 10:53am tim from champaign: Happy birthday, Joe! Mine was Saturday. Hello everyody.
	10:53am John: @joe mcg are you talking about devo
	👻 10:53am tim from champaign: Good one, Linda!
	10:53am JakeGould: Was talking this weekend to someone who—like me—have only realized in the last few years that “Synchronicity” is a “dad rock” new wave classic.
	👻 10:53am Hughie Considine: Hey @Joe! Apparently Chet Atkins said of Travis Wammack: "This scares me. I pass!"
	10:54am Linda Lee: happy birthday, tim!
	10:54am Joe McG: Happy birthday, Tim! @Hughie: Great story!
	10:54am steveo: [Wammack] began his professional music career when he wrote and recorded his first record at the age of eleven. A child prodigy, Wammack's first record was issued when he was twelve years old, and at 17 he hit the American charts with "Scratchy", an instrumental which peaked at #80 in 1964.
	10:54am TheLoneliestMonk: If any of youse ever read 'hit men', it was worth it for the Neil bogart & Casablanca stories alone!
	10:55am Linda Lee: wow, love this Stones cover. sounds nice & crappy! (a good thing.)
	10:57am Linda Lee: the cleaner music tech gets, the more i like the scuffs & bumps.
	10:57am TheLoneliestMonk: For my money, best cover of JJ Flash is by Johnny winter, a wonderfully raucous, rowdy thing
	10:59am steveo: would have been a good spot for the "groovin'" bed...
	👻 10:59am Hughie Considine: Ananda Shankar did a fantabulous cover of Jumpin Jack Flash!
	👻 10:59am tim from champaign: I agree with your above 2 comments 100%, Linda.
	11:00am steveo: this is wonderful
	11:00am Linda Lee: what's that about Gay Matthew?
	11:01am Linda Lee: thanks, Tim. i'm not totally twisted then. i'm glad. :-D
	11:01am steveo: i'm going to call hot 100 and ask them to play some records backwards now :)
	11:03am Linda Lee: btw, if you've ever tried having fun in a blackberry patch, you know it's not easy.
	11:03am renbo: Wait do you have a cold Joe or did you get a voice change operation?
	11:04am The Oscar: Thanks to the Satanic Panic of the '80s, I'm pretty sure I know "Stairway to Heaven" better backwards than forwards.
	11:04am renbo: hi everybody! How do I put a picture next to my name?
	11:05am Jim Austin: re exotica: Have you heard "The Versatile Henry Mancini?" It's very spare, with guitar, bass, organ, accordion, and some chorus, but clearly exotica.
	👻 11:05am Hughie Considine: This sounds promising!
	11:06am Booz: I been looking forward to this segment.
	11:07am Vince Nifigance: @renbo Sign up for an account, then you can upload an avatar.
	👻 11:07am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Oh Im very excited for this.
	11:07am Colleen: Im so excited about this!
	11:08am cluebucket: Capricorns age in reverse, they say... no kids' records at 5 makes sense
	👻 11:08am queems: what a cute idea!!!
	11:08am ranjit: I just noticed that your bed music has the same rhythm as the motif that opens Kermit the Frog's Rainbow Connection.
	👻 11:09am Hughie Considine: key change!
	11:09am Joe McG: @ranjit: How nice!
	11:10am The Oscar: The first non-kids song I can remember loving was "Boris the Spider" by the Who (though I didn't care for the fact that Boris dies at the end).
	11:10am melinda: I can see why you liked this at 5.
	👻 11:10am Hughie Considine: I'm guessing this is when young Joe McG perfected his finger snapping.
	11:10am Listener Alexandra: Good morning, Joe!
	11:11am Joe McG: 5 year old me played imaginary drums to this.
	11:11am duke: I want to go surfing.
	👻 11:11am tim from champaign: Joe, you had excellent taste as a 5 year old!
	11:11am melinda: I think I was listening to Free to Be You and me when I was 5.
	11:11am Bill W: Happy birthday, Joe. And 50? Who does your makeup?
	11:11am Andy the painter: a rock and roll wizard story time! happy birthday, joe!!
	11:11am Linda Lee: i liked kids' records more at 25 than i did at 5! at 5 i liked the Yardbirds!
	11:12am Joe McG: @Bill W: I have Dolly's makeup artist.
	11:12am Vince Nifigance: When I was 10, the Fat Boys introduced me to this song.
	11:12am Booz: HBD JMcG
	11:13am Chi Bill: LOL, air drummed this as well at 5 (odd, I'm 60). Happy B -day Joe!
	11:13am renbo: @Vince Nifigance ok man thanks I shoulda realised I guess I use my listener number
	11:14am Linda Lee: oh my GOSH i remember this one very well! 1910 Fruitgum Company!
	11:14am Listener Alexandra: Hippo birdies to you, Joe!
	11:14am Vlack3Bos: I thought you said no kids music!
	11:15am Vince Nifigance: This could double as an alzheimers test in advancing years.
	11:15am Joe McG: Ha ha, I lied!
	11:15am Linda Lee: oh Joe. what young kid didn't love 'downtown'?
	11:16am ranjit: It's weird to hear Downtown without it being all glitched out by People Like Us!
	11:16am Linda Lee: 'simon says' was Top 40!
	11:16am melinda: This was on one of my K-Tel collections, and at the time I thought it and other bubblegum & novelty songs were kids' music.
	11:16am TheLoneliestMonk: 'downtown'! Glenn Gould's favorite pop tune!
	👻 11:17am Ken From Hyde Park: I can imagine Little Joe breaking in his new records by rubbing dirt on them to enhance the surface noise.
	11:17am melinda: Downtown is one of the best songs ever!
	11:17am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Oh my goodness, Joe - "Downtown Train" is also my first memory of music as a child. Happy Happy Birthday, my friend. What a blessing to be alive and to hear and be moved by music and your wonderful show.
	11:17am Roberto: "Downtown" was still commonplace on NYC radio in the early '70s. So much so, in fact, that when I was a kid I assumed it was a '70s production.
	11:18am Linda Lee: i'm definitely 5 years old again hearing Pet Clark! that's when i decided i'd always live 'downtown'.
	11:18am Joe McG: I remember feeling so excited about the possibilities this song raised in wee mind.
	11:18am John in Bklyn: Wow, Joe, you're taking me through my childhood!
	11:18am Linda Lee: me too honey! :-D
	11:19am duke: This was my first record.
	11:19am ConcernedMom: you got me softly twerking
	11:19am TheLoneliestMonk: Early kinks...where's Mike Shelley & Dennis Diken?
	11:20am judy from croton: Joe, your birthday is so much fun! I suggest having a birthday every year
	11:20am Granny Spicy Tuna: Fave at five: "Bennie and the Jets!"
	11:20am Dominick: Haaaaaaaaappppy Birthday! s3.amazonaws.com...
	11:20am melinda: @LoneliestMonk I associate it with him because it was featured in that movie, 32 Short Films or whatever.
	11:21am John in Bklyn: I borrowed a 45 of The Tokens version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight from a friend when I was in 1st grade. I kept it for weeks and he got very upset. I couldn't stop playing it!
	👻 11:21am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Really lovin' this 5 y.o. buddy.
	11:21am Re6ecca: I always enjoy your show Joe! This is definitely my favorite mix yet! I wish every day was your Birthday so you could indulge!!! Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!
	11:21am Joe McG: A lot of oldies, I know, but these are the songs I loved and played over and over.
	11:21am Jim Austin: I remember novelty songs from the late 50's. "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'da Baked a Cake."
	11:22am steveo: joe this is really fantastic. are some of these the same physical 45s you've owned since then? i find the music of my childhood very powerful.
	11:22am Linda Lee: Beatles!!!! you young kids have no idea what 'beatlemania' was really like. it was delicious madness. the first single i owned (age 5) was 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'.
	11:22am John in Bklyn: This is my first SN of 2019... so belated Happy New Year, Joe and fellow Noisers!
	👻 11:22am tim from champaign: AN early music memory for me is figuring out how to turn on and turn the radio dial on my parents' console stereo and coming across Aerosmith's Walk This Way. I remember being struck that they were singing a nursery rhyme and then discovering that the louder I turned it up and the closer I got to the speakers the better it sounded. An early life lesson. I haven't learned much since.
	11:22am TheLoneliestMonk: @melinda not inaccurate. He even did a radio essay about petula Clark...preferred her to the beatles
	11:24am Linda Lee: i'm with you, tim. i could turn on the transistor radio before i could read!
	11:24am judy from croton: My father says I loved Dolly Dawn by Harry Belafonte as a one year old. Only song that made me stand up in my crib and bounce. They’d try to trick me by switching the song in the middle. I’d just lay back down.
	11:25am Joe McG: I never could understand the words to this song. Cool head? Bread? What's he talking about?
	👻 11:25am queems: there was a video of a car sliding down a road during a mudslide and this song was in the background and now that is all i can think about when i hear it
	11:25am John in Bklyn: Happy B-Day, Joe! (Late to the party!) I didn't even bring anything.
	11:25am renbo: Yeah HBD man We're the same age and you're hitting these tunes esp beachboys is right on the money used to sit there with the dinky plastic spinner spinning these funny show -- timetravellin!!
	11:25am The Oscar: When I was home for Christmas my dad was talking about the subgenre of "Me-And-My-Friends-Are-So-Great Beach Boys songs."
	👻 11:25am officina: Happy Birthday to one of the best DJs on the best station !
	👻 11:26am karlward: I so love this song. And the Emerson Kitamura cover.
	11:26am Franco Twinkie: Happy birthday Joe! fifty eight? I liked all these songs when I was ten. Then as now I was glued to the radio. You too, I bet.
	11:26am Joe McG: Thank you so much, oficina!
	11:26am prudy: Rock yer baby!
	11:27am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, closest i ever got to witnessing Beatlemania was attending a New Kids on the Block concert at the Cow Palace in SF at the height of their fame. I know it is the palest, shabbiest comparison, but what i witnessed in the crowd (as an entirely ironic 20-something) really freaked me out and deeply disturbed me. Huzzah for Puritanical sexual repression and its weird outlets. Yikes!
	👻 11:27am queems: loveeee the emerson kitamura cover
	11:27am Linda Lee: we 60s - 70s kids were uniquely confused by the word 'bread'.
	11:27am Brendan: I enjoyed the earlier comments about people finding WFMU. I came to WFMU intentionally. Or at least I knew there was something better out there and went searching for it. At 54, I caught the tail end of the early FM years as a kid only to see the individuality of it die. In the early 2000s, my local independent record shops were pretty much gone. Idol and those *&$#ing talent shows were the thing. Pandora and other recommendation streaming services were hitting their stride. It just felt like a dark time… I started listening to college streams and looked for new ones every day (no, this one’s not right , let me try another). I stumbled onto Irwin’s program one day in 2012 and serendipitously, he was playing an old recording of WFMU from the 70’s. It reminded me of an old station WGTB (Georgetown University) way back in the 70’s where you heard anything and everything before the Jesuit owners probably got tired of hearing djs doing bong hits on air. After Irwin, I discovered Ken, wow. Then all of the other wonderful DJs. Every time I tune in, it’s like walking into a record shop where someone’s putting a great record on the turntable and people are browsing and talking about the artists and sharing. Thanks Joe and Happy Birthday!
	11:28am melinda: I like all these songs but it's especially fun imagining a 5-year-old grooving on them.
	👻 11:28am tim from champaign: The electric piano, droney keyboard and rhythm box are so cool on this. I never noticed before.
	11:28am freste: Happy bday! and holy moly, amazing that can come up with all these. I'm of the same vintage, know every note of these tunes* when I hear them but would never be able to bring them up. (*OK, Simon Says i don't know.))
	11:29am prudy: troglodytes!
	11:30am Linda Lee: Jimmy Castor Bunch! right up there with Dennis Coffey!
	👻 11:30am Brian in UK: Joe, so when did you start collecting records in anger?
	11:30am Roberto: FWIW, about 15 years ago my daughter went to a five-year-old's birthday party where the parting gift was a CD mix of the birthday kid's favorite pop tunes. I don't think my daughter ever listened to it but I sure did...over and over!
	👻 11:30am TristaC.LadyCaveBrat: Omg. Cave Man! We may be 15 years apart but we totally would have kicked it on the playground.
	11:30am Joe McG: Of course a 5 year old is going to like anything with butt in it.
	11:30am TheLoneliestMonk: BwaHa! Jimmy Castor! Had a friend who was a college radio DJ who LOVED the Jimmy Castor bunch...Bertha's butt boogie!
	👻 11:30am tim from champaign: My 4 year old nephews really like a techno song called "Bootie in Your Face". I think I need to lay the Troglodyte on them.
	👻 11:31am Hughie Considine: Ha, the "gotta find a woman" bit was repurposed in "Election '72," one of those mashups of song soundbites as punch lines in jokes.
	11:31am Colleen: These all just make sence
	11:31am Linda Lee: yeah fellas. ya can't grab a woman by the hair no more. it might come off.
	11:31am The Oscar: I hate that I missed the days when this could be a major radio hit.
	11:32am ConcernedMom: where can i find me a Bertha Butt
	11:32am TheLoneliestMonk: Oh JoeMac, you musta been one funky lil' offbeat dude at 5 yrs old!
	11:33am Linda Lee: oye como va baby! thank you, Nadia, my babysitter, for bringing me to Santana!
	👻 11:33am Hughie Considine: @Oscar, A time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence/ A time of confidences
	11:33am prudy: can't get through the 70s without Santana.
	11:33am steveo: not surprisingly, you were a much cooler 5 year old than me
	11:33am John in Bklyn: @Hughie Considine I remember those! Dicky Goodman, I think?
	11:33am Joe McG: My mom also loved Santana. She had them on bootleg 8-track!
	👻 11:34am Hughie Considine: I can almost hear a segue into "Earache My Eye" here ...
	11:34am TheLoneliestMonk: @JoeMac did you have one of those crappy little personal phonographs with a tinny built in speaker like I did?
	11:34am Bill W: Irwin and Ken were also my gateways to FMU, circa '83
	11:34am Joe McG: @Monk: I was a weird kid who liked weird music even then, I guess.
	11:34am Linda Lee: abraxas: best cover art ever done. mindblowing!
	11:34am Franco Twinkie: Oye Como Va - Total junior high dance party! Stoners and cholos agree, Santana is the shit.
	11:35am Linda Lee: everyone loved this stuff, Joe!
	11:35am Elias: All those from the Cleveland area will instantly have THIS pop into their head when hearing Troglodyte. Forever seared into my little kid up late at night brain.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0
	11:35am John in Bklyn: Bootleg 8-Tracks! haha I had a Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratching Fever" mistyped on the label.
	11:36am Linda Lee: I had one, Monk!
	👻 11:36am queems: YESSSSSSSSSS
	11:36am Roberto: Oh HELLS YAS
	11:36am The Oscar: YESSSSSSSS.
	👻 11:36am Hughie Considine: yes! (the Fifth solo is the best one!!!)
	11:37am Franco Twinkie: I thought Oye Como Va was on the first album. Am I wrong?
	11:37am Chi Bill: Still LOVE Hocus Pocus!!! Yo do lay.....
	11:37am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL like a clamshell valise design, hardshell, highly durable?
	11:37am Linda Lee: oh god ~ in '70 this focus song made me laugh.
	👻 11:37am Hughie Considine: Best yodeling in rock?
	11:38am John in Bklyn: Why aren't there more yodel rock songs?
	👻 11:38am tim from champaign: Joe, did your teacher know what troglodyte meant?
	11:38am Linda Lee: you bet! believe it was red.
	11:38am Lisa in Tpa: Happy birthday, bub! XO
	11:38am Andy the painter: joe, i can’t believe yer turning fifty. i woulda guessed forty. damn.
	11:38am Joe McG: I still love it, too! In fact, I love most of these records still.
	11:39am mjgoins: This is so great.
	11:39am The Oscar: Love that wall of comments at 11:36
	11:39am TheLoneliestMonk: Yeah, they used this in ''baby driver'. Actually shot the shootout scene TO the song...still not sure if it worked
	11:39am Linda Lee: kills me when he gets into the Popeye vocal.
	11:39am Joe McG: @Lisa: Thank you, dear! :)
	👻 11:39am queems: one right into the other
	11:40am Franco Twinkie: I remember when Focus played at the Santa Monica Civic in 1973, thinking should I go? Little Feat opened the show.
	11:40am prudy: you're pushin all the buttons, joe!
	11:40am Joe McG: As a kid, I loved all the monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man...so this was a natural. And that riff!
	👻 11:40am Hughie Considine: Saw Johnny & Edgar at the Felt Forum w. Mahogany Rush. A rockin' show!
	11:40am The Oscar: Now I'm imagining 5-year-old Joe driving around in an airbrushed van.
	11:41am Roberto: I think that was an abbreviated version of Hocus Pocus.
	11:41am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL can't remember if mine was RCA or GE, really wish I still had the damn thing tho :(
	11:41am Colleen: I wanted to marry Frankenstein when I was little....and Donnie Osmond
	11:41am Zetti: Love the performances by Focus and Edger Winter on The Old Whistle Test.
	11:41am prudy: this rhino collection is a killer. When it was released they sold it with a peace of shag carpeting.
	11:41am Jackie: Happy Birthday, Joe!
	11:42am Joe McG: Thanks, Jackie!!
	11:42am Linda Lee: this was one of my first albums. mainly i was fascinated with the guy's looks.
	11:42am Granny Spicy Tuna: That Super Hits series really collected some fun stuff together.
	11:42am Linda Lee: @prudy ~ are you kidding me? :-D who'd want 'a piece' of shag carpeting? ya gotta do the whole house!
	11:43am Roberto: And that was an abbreviated Frankenstein.
	11:43am TheLoneliestMonk: Johnny & Edgar: WHITE TRASH!
	11:43am Jackie: you've got the perfect day to skip out early! (and have someone else make your lunch)
	👻 11:43am Hughie Considine: The caped crusader, Rick Wakeman!
	11:43am melinda: @Oscar haha! It did move into different musical territory there.
	11:43am Booz: I listened to this Six Wives LP so many times, the grooves are worn.
	11:44am Itzall Ablurr: Can "Tubular Bells" be far behind?
	11:45am Linda Lee: well, 'tubular bells' would just about slay me.
	11:45am Clay Pigeon: Yes! Wakeman!
	11:45am Mike tp: walked in on nice Rick!!!!!!
	11:45am Linda Lee: welcome to the party, Clay! :-)
	11:45am Joe McG: @Itzall: It took me a long time to hear that music since "The Exorcist" traumatized me as a kid and permanently put me off horror movies.
	11:45am Mike tp: walked in on nice Rick
	11:46am pantz: Oh man! One of my stoner uncles had Wakeman's Journey To The Center of The Earth and I would listen to it over and over. I was probably a little older than 5 though.
	👻 11:46am tadpoles: Late to the party today so will listen later but love a bit of prog. Hearing "Lucky Man" by ELP at the end of some recent film whose name escapes me made me realize again...it was good.
	11:46am Franco Twinkie: Back in the day, you could always find a good scrap of shag in the dumpster of Carpeteria, the store that had a giant genie on the roof holding a rolled up rug over his head.
	11:46am TheLoneliestMonk: Was tubular bells a single? I know it was a relative hit...
	👻 11:46am Brian in UK: Do we all get a party bag?
	11:46am Roberto: I had never really seen The Exorcist until I watched with my kid recently. Funny AF.
	👻 11:47am Hughie Considine: Jesus!!!!!!!
	11:47am Granny Spicy Tuna: YES. This was a fave for sure!!!!
	11:47am Zetti: Cool
	11:47am Brendan: Rick’s RRHOF speech was great:https://youtu.be/oYnOZHxtGG4
	11:47am Roberto: I prefer the Muppet version of this.
	11:47am Linda Lee: Joe, that's a shame ~ after loving all those nice cool monsters. oh no! Jesus Christ Superstar! i played the London Production recording to absolute death. also saw the show ten times running.
	11:47am Colleen: YES!!!
	11:47am prudy: Love the whole Superstar broadway recording.
	👻 11:48am Hughie Considine: I had to keep my love of JCS a secret. We were a Godspell family...
	11:48am Lisa in Tpa: Judas! This song has been bouncing around in my brain for days. Weeks.
	11:48am mjgoins: This is a bit like Magma
	11:48am Itzall Ablurr: Haha. Joe, I hear ya. I sneaked into a drive-in to see The Exorcist when I was a pup- I had NO idea how freaked out it would make me, but of course I also LOVED it!
	11:49am prudy: loved Godspell also. Don't know if I could listen now.
	11:49am Linda Lee: i met Jeff Fenholt! he signed my record cover! a prize possession.
	11:49am Granny Spicy Tuna: I'm doing my back-up dancing choreography!!!
	11:49am Joe McG: I watched this movie on TV every Easter for a decade.
	👻 11:50am Hughie Considine: In the final analysis, Superstar holds up much better, @prudy
	11:50am Linda Lee: i saw Godspell as well, off Broadway. tiny theatre. very cool
	👻 11:50am Brian in UK: Joe, great show. Get well quickly.
	👻 11:50am Hughie Considine: Tenacious D actually does a pretty ripping cover of this.
	11:50am prudy: agree with you Considine
	11:50am kerbo: I love it. good tradition Joe. happy 50!
	11:51am chresti: 1969 okay, didn’t have a lot to say....’cuz you were a baby ! Happy birthday Joe!
	11:51am melinda: I remember listening to JCS at night with the old giant headphones as a young one. I still prefer to listen to it after dark.
	11:51am Mr. Palchepo.: Damn it. Why won’t this stereo go louder?
	👻 11:51am Hughie Considine: It was a very Jesus-y time.
	11:51am Ike: I once blew Wm. Berger's mind by telling him that I didn't get much out of The Exorcist. I don't know, it didn't do that much for me. Maybe it helps to be Catholic? Ha.
	👻 11:51am 12539: Thanks and Happy Birthday, Joe! 50 is the new 5!
	11:51am yippie: do you know Charlie purple?
	11:52am Linda Lee: check this out. i adored this show. www.youtube.com...
	11:52am Bill W: My parents had a Nat Cole best-of I heard, for sure.
	11:52am Linda Lee: the first voice i recognized on radio: Nat King Cole.
	11:52am The Oscar: @Hughie Funny-- never heard that cover, but JCS always makes me think of Jack Black in the Mr. Show skit "Jeepers Creepers, Semi-star"
	11:53am TheLoneliestMonk: @LL what about The Fantasticks? Jerry Orbach once said there were probly more NYC kids conceived to that than any other musical. It was the official cheap theater date for years
	11:53am Franco Twinkie: I saw The Exorcist at the Wiltern in L.A. when it was still a two dollar movie theater. I was really stoned and had to look at my feet for the first part of the movie.
	11:54am Joe McG: Was I the only one super terrified by the Winged Monkeys?
	👻 11:54am Hughie Considine: @Oscar, will have to chase that one down. He was made for the musical stage.
	11:54am steveo: no!
	11:54am Linda Lee: i never saw the Fantasticks! my mom did though. she saw them all.
	11:54am Davis: ah
	👻 11:54am queems: the wizard of oz is some of my first memories of color
	11:54am melinda: I tried watching The Exorcist recently but my DVD player wouldn't play it, I guess it was a sign.
	11:54am Linda Lee: no Joe, you were not.
	11:55am judy from croton: Ok knew I ‘d be crying soon
	11:55am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, every song on that JCSS is exciting to me, and i was brought up a heathen. Finally saw a production in 1993 with the original Jesus and Judas in the cast.
	11:55am yippie: I was really spooked by the flying monkeys I had to hold my moms hand
	11:55am Joe McG: Thanks for indulging my musical autobiography as a 5 year old!
	11:55am paul: One of a handful of songs that make me cry.
	11:55am judy from croton: Correction: sobbing
	11:56am Linda Lee: i was also terrified by that flying bicycle music, when Miss Gulch robs the dog.
	11:56am Davis: this is magic
	11:56am Summer and Michael and Sylvia: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"...Summer's song. Forever.
	11:56am steveo: Dang no Captain & Tennille (see what good taste you have?). (It was Nate K. who recently played the Dragons, Joe, you played them a few years ago.) What a wonderful and special set. Happy birthday!
	11:56am prudy: thanks Joe for a great stroll down memory lane.
	👻 11:56am tadpoles: Wow just reading the comments board to realize it's your big decade turner birthday Joe...with a neat mix of music. Happy Birthday and enjoy the Rock 'n' Rolling '50's!
	11:56am Joe McG: Thanks again for all the great birthday wishes! You made this one special. :) See you next week!
	👻 11:56am queems: thanks, joe! happy birthday!
	👻 11:56am b!!!: Wonderful set!
	11:56am Brendan: This should segue right into some Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow nicely I think
	11:57am TheLoneliestMonk: Thanks for spending your birthday with us JoeMac, this was a fun one!
	11:57am Franco Twinkie: My favorite Judy Garland song is her cover of Purple People Eater.
	11:57am Linda Lee: Granny, how in the name of God did those guys do that show 20 years later? it was very demanding!
	11:57am Brendan: @Joe thank you for sharing!
	11:57am Krys O.: Thanks, Joe! Enjoy the rest of your birthday!
	11:58am bianca bob: Lovely set! Happy Birthday to youse!
	11:58am Itzall Ablurr: I am NOT crying. NOPE. BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! And if THIS one makes you cry, check out Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'Ole's version. It will break you down.
	11:58am Granny Spicy Tuna: Funny "Wizard of Oz" story. Was watching the beginning on TV (age 3 or 4) and then we drove to my grandparents house to watch the rest, and it was in color! A grown-up said, "Oh, they'd just invented color." And i thought they meant right then that very minute. Blown away.
	11:59am TheLoneliestMonk: Loved single file & favs @ 5 today!
	11:59am Linda Lee: jumping around like a maniac & make crazy noises is life. thank you, Joe!
	11:59am Santos L Halper: Welcome to the 50s Joe! And thanks for the good old tunes, I was right back there with ya (Troglodyte et al also catnip for a nine year old : )
	11:59am Itzall Ablurr: G.S.P., that's amazingly endearing.
	11:59am Granny Spicy Tuna: Linda Lee, the show was amazing and their performances were thrilling. Good trainers, i guess???
	11:59am Parq: Hi, Joe. Your dad played in a band that did Santana covers? Cool!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from January 14, 2019

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